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do you have any advice for writing fan fiction? anything in your experience that you've found difficult? especially for something longer. i haven't done much creative writing.

honestly neither have i! 99% of the time i’m writing like. academic papers lol and gruelling over how boring methods writing is. the last time (before the fics ive written recently) that i wrote fiction was for my senior year provincial english exam where i wrote a sterek fanfic but just changed the names lmfao. though i suppose some things carry over.

always read over what you wrote (or get a beta/editor!), your first draft is never your best.

and in that same vein, don’t aim for it to be perfect the first time. just get the first draft written.

plan! writing is a logical endeavor. when i write a theoretical background section of a research paper i think about the logical flow — what theory feeds into the other? what story am i telling there? same thing for fiction. map out each section, map out major plot points, and stick to it for the first draft. adjust after. as far as fic goes, i think it’s a realy good idea to complete at least a handful of chapters/the entire work before posting it, cause your vision changes when you have a bigger picture.

*also! your reader doesn’t know your setting/vision as well as you do. illustrate it for your reader. make drawings/descriptions of your settings for consistency too.

the toughest thing for me is dialogue haha cause i literally never have to write dialogue in academia. best advice for that is to say each line of dialogue outloud and see if it makes sense in your mouth. i do this with writing, too, especially when passages get verbose (i.e. purple prose) and jargon-y.

the last thing i can suggest is just keep things realistic. i think immersion into a story helps when pacing and interactions are realistic. my writing is far from perfect, but i hope this helps!!!

also any other fic writers pls feel free to add on in the replies

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