do any of you guys have fan fiction accounts? can some one show me how to write stories there?

Question

yeah i recently made myself a fan fiction acount and i want to start contriburing stories but im not really sure where to start so if i could get somehelp that would be awesum thax

Answer 1

I do, under a different name than this. First, you need an idea for a story, then you need to be sure the characters of whatever fandom you are writing for are IN character, and if they're not in character, there must be a very good reason why, which you communicate through the writing of the story. Some extreme event causes them to act in a way they ordinarily wouldn't, for example.

Your grasp of the language must be good, and this includes not only a strong vocabulary with correct spelling, but proper sentence structure and correct punctuation.

Whatever you do, don't put yourself into a story. Too many fanfic writers make themselves the hero or anti-hero. Try to avoid direct rip-offs of movie/book plots. Parodies are OK if there's a point, such as an attempt to tell a well-known tragic story using a certain fandom's characters, but in a humorous, non-serious way. For example, just plugging Harry Potter characters into a Star Wars setting, with Voldemort as Vader and Harry, obviously, as Skywalker, would only be good if you could somehow do it for laughs. Played seriously, it's just a pointless ripoff.

The best fanfics I've read use characters in a totally made up storyline that keeps them in character (or explains why they;re not), interacting with original characters the writer has created. By original, I mean original, and not thinly-disguised characters under different names that a reader could easily identify.

Answer 2

Merlin was around long, long before the BBC! Merlin, a name for a falcon, also, goes back to the mid-6th century AD when the Roman legions were pulled out of Briton (the Roman name). There was a resurgence of pre-Roman culture, including Mithrasism and Druidism. Merlin was a Druid. Try reading some more about Merlin. Mary Stewart has a trilogy about him, starting with "The Crystal Cave" where Merlin is a boy approaching his teens, when he suddenly, and unexpectedly has a vision that saves his life.