He is really, seriously pretty amazing. His book On Writing...omg YES. ♥ When I was younger, before I'd actually READ anything by him, I'd always assumed he was just a hack, like (to use a CURRENT example) James Patterson, but...now that I've ACTUALLY READ some of his works...just, Wow. -*___*-
To make it more fanfic-focused rather than I Want To Be A Professional/Published Writer ...ish...I'd say Tao has the right of it. They should pick a character they feel like they know and understand, and go from there. My first big essay into the World of Fanfic was "My Point of Weakness" (...which...is pretty awful by my standards today, yeah, BUT EVERYONE STARTS SOMEWHERE K), and I started writing it because at the time it was The Story I'd Always Wanted To Read. I was having a LOT of trouble finding good, IC SasuSaku fic, so I decided I'd just have to write one for myself. :]
XD I'M JEST SAYIN'~ 'Cause yeah, someone like Noelle from TotA is way less-developed than, say, Sakura from Naruto...but Yuri from ToV is a HELL of a lot more developed than someone like Shino or Tenten or MOST of the Naruto cast, really, because ffff Kishi fails a LOT at fleshing out his characters, probably because he has about 3,490,583 of them now
To make it more fanfic-focused rather than I Want To Be A Professional/Published Writer ...ish...I'd say Tao has the right of it. They should pick a character they feel like they know and understand, and go from there. My first big essay into the World of Fanfic was "My Point of Weakness" (...which...is pretty awful by my standards today, yeah, BUT EVERYONE STARTS SOMEWHERE K), and I started writing it because at the time it was The Story I'd Always Wanted To Read. I was having a LOT of trouble finding good, IC SasuSaku fic, so I decided I'd just have to write one for myself. :]
XD I'M JEST SAYIN'~ 'Cause yeah, someone like Noelle from TotA is way less-developed than, say, Sakura from Naruto...but Yuri from ToV is a HELL of a lot more developed than someone like Shino or Tenten or MOST of the Naruto cast, really, because ffff Kishi fails a LOT at fleshing out his characters, probably because he has about 3,490,583 of them now
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