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Views & Reviews Archive
Find all our Views & Reviews articles here! These articles are all about helping you up the view and review counts on your fan fiction stories. They'll teach you how to write intriguing summaries, come up with eye-catching titles, and much more. Introduction, Facts, and FiguresThe Give and Take of ReviewsThe Review EtiquetteThe Importance of… Continue reading Views & Reviews Archive
The Importance of a Good Summary
A summary’s job is to convince potential readers to give your story a shot. Unless you have a gaggle of adoring fans who devour everything you write, your story’s summary is the only thing that will make people want to read your fic. No matter how unique your story is, the synopsis is the gateway,… Continue reading The Importance of a Good Summary
Writing Questions Archive
Find all of your answered writing questions here! For all questions about reviews, synopses, and story titles check out our Views & Reviews Archive. FIGURING OUT PLOT How to come up with original story ideasHow to keep control of your plotHow to write a short story Getting into character Creating an original characterDealing with characterisation… Continue reading Writing Questions Archive
How to Create an OC
Q I want to write an OC, but I don't want her to be a Mary Sue. Any tips? A The definition of a Mary Sue varies from one person to another. You can do everything right by most people’s standards, but there will always be someone for whom any OC is a self-insert Mary… Continue reading How to Create an OC
How to Write Embedded Quotes
Q How would you structure a sentence that ends with or has speech in the middle of it? A Voices shouted, “Stop!” but he kept running. She said, “Good morning,” and then sat down. If the quote is embedded in the middle of a sentence, place a comma between the dialogue tag and the opening… Continue reading How to Write Embedded Quotes
Suspense, Drama, and Angst, What’s the Difference?
Q Could you possibly give a brief rundown of the differences between suspense, drama and angst? They seem to run rather parallel to each other. A Suspense = 😨Drama = 😯Angst = 😭 The goal with suspense is to have readers on the edge of their seat, worrying about what will happen next. An example… Continue reading Suspense, Drama, and Angst, What’s the Difference?
Season Three Issue Four
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Show, don’t tell
Q How to show not tell? I keep getting told this, but I don’t know how to use it in my writing. A Telling is what you do when you inform your friends of something that happened to you (I went here and did that. Then something happened, and I felt a certain way about… Continue reading Show, don’t tell
Quotes within dialogue
Q Is there a preference for speech/quotation marks when used inside another speech? For example, “Hermione said, and I quote, ‘do your homework.’” Or would it be the other way around, ‘Hermione said, and I quote, “do your homework.”’? A Here’s the rule: whichever quotation mark you use for dialogue, use the opposite one for… Continue reading Quotes within dialogue
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