FlynnCoyote
Takin it slow.
Re: What is with all of this "My little pony" stuff? (The unofficial official MLP Thr
Ah Cain, I appreciate this. Thank you. The disregard others was what I needed to hear.
As to whether I am an experienced writer? Er... yes. Quite.
Followings on three websites (including FA) and several literature awards on one of them.
I don't know if you're an experienced writer, and you may not have asked for writing advice, but I feel I need to give it to you anyways. You may know this stuff already, but it's always helpful to have a reminder.
1) Write your story using something like google docs, because its easily share-able and not to mention free. Especially if you want to give your pre-readers a chance to give it the look over before you release it publicly on such a website as fimfiction. So then commenters won't get the chance to get nit-picky and make you feel bad
2) If you don't have them already, get pre-readers. One or two would be just fine, but you can get more if you wish. Choose close-ish friends, or people you know will be loyal enough to read, check for errors and give you an opinion when you link it to them.
3) Create a backlog. You never know when your muse will die on you and you get writer's block. And if you've uploaded all your chapters onto fimfiction (or whatever site of your choosing) as soon as you've written them/they've been given the go-ahead by your prereaders, your readers/followers will be expecting you to get the next chapter out in around the same time you've released the others. Which, if you have writer's block, is extremely bad. A backlog allows you to upload chapters at your will, say every 5 days, and also gives you the ability to comfortably write your next chapters, because you know you aren't under a strict deadline, as you have a backlog of un-uploaded chapters.
4) Plan. In my woefully little experience, there are two main types of writer. The one that clearly defines how and what he's going to write, has a set beginning, middle and end, and knows what he's going to write in the next chapter/paragraph/whatever. You also have the one that writes on impulse, 'going with the flow'. Of course the first type is easier to plan, but the second type is harder. If you're the second type, this is a bit of advice I gave during a conversation with a friend:
That also helps if you have writer's block, and are the second type of writer. If you're the first type, you should have systematically planned already and can look back on that to see what you're writing next.
And in regards to writing something similar to what someone else has written, disregard that from your mind. I've seen many fics that are really similar, be it remakes or whatever, but write what you want to, not what you think people want you to.
Hope all that helps.
Edit:
Also, these tips are also for anyone who is thinking about writing a fanfic, or is in the process of writing one.
Ah Cain, I appreciate this. Thank you. The disregard others was what I needed to hear.
As to whether I am an experienced writer? Er... yes. Quite.
Followings on three websites (including FA) and several literature awards on one of them.
