Hey guys, how are you all ( Read more... )

*pokes* So, I've been gone for a bit. Sorry. Exams, projects, all that junk. But that's okay! Because we're not here to talk about me; we're here to talk about this subject called "punctuation!"

( By the way, yes, the punctuation will always go inside the end of the quotation mark like so: Mariah had something called an )

The topic of this entry is characterization. My aim is to adress the following bits:

• Characterization in general
• Describing my characters
• Mary Sues & self inserts
• Mary Sue-izing canon characters
• OOCness

For sexykyu, 'cause lj messages are a bitch.

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Excuse me for not wishing everyone merry christmas /o\ forgot about it xD and I'm sure I will forget the new year's greeting in a few days too, so Happy New Years in advance ^o^/)

This post is about punctuation in direct speech. I never paid attention to them, until I wondered whether I'm doing it wrong, there's a possibility that it's different ( Read more... )

The story takes place in England, at a school, and BAM. Sudden physical education scene with American football. You're reading a story that takes place in Japan, and then out of the blue, the characters go to a school dance. Sometimes it amazes me how authors forget to do cultural research, or at least keep the story in the same setting context.

( You'd think people would actually do some research before throwing their characters in. )

Hullo, everyone! So, I'm the newest (and I think youngest) writer on how_to_fanfic , Kamitori . Hope that we can all get along! Since I was told to introduce myself a bit, I suppose we should get started:

I've written fanfiction for several different fandoms, though I haven't written much lately. Instead, I've been focusing more on my own fictional stories since ( Read more... )

Before LJ goes offline for a few hours and wrecks everything here, I'd like to ask around about a topic I'm curious about ( Read more... )

This might be personal opinion again, since languages are so difficult to handle with when you do not understand it. kennikitty wrote about how you should not properly use foreign words in your fanfic ( Read more... )

I wrote my first fanfic recently, and it turned out better than other badfics I've quoted here before, yet I noticed that these other fics got more reviews than mine. What was the problem? It was certainly not my writing style or the story, that I'm sure ( Read more... )