Revised Fan Fiction sticky., Please read this before posting. Options

[Alexander]

The amount of stickies in this section had grown quite a bit over the past few years, so here is the new and improved Fan Fiction section sticky.


This section is meant for posting Elder Scrolls related Fan Fiction, even so, if you have Fan Fiction not related to The Elder Scrolls, we'll welcome that as well. Non fantasy related Fan Fiction may be removed at a moderator's discretion.

The entire forum is a 13+ forum. That means that anything on it should meet those requirements. Censor avoidance is not allowed in a story. If you feel your story simply cannot go without adult content, please make sure to contact a moderator or administrator before posting the story to make sure it meets the requirements for an exception.

Please do not create a thread solely to announce a future story, nor for the sole reason of asking advice on a story that already has a thread.

Polls are also frowned upon in this section so before posting it, please make sure the poll actually adds something.

[Alexander]

Creating your story;

First, you need to have some ideas in mind- who is the character (or characters)? What do you want to happen? If you are writing a fan-fic, the setting is already provided, but you can pick and chose the parts of that setting that will be useful to your story.

So, those are your elements- character, plot, setting.

For the character, ask yourself some questions: What is he/she doing here? Does this individual have any particular traits that make life easier/harder (bad temper, prejudice, wit, charm, etc. How aware of events is the character? Is s/he cluelessly stumbling from one misadventure to another, driven by circumstances? Or does the character have a purpose, one that drives him forward against all obstacles?

What point-of-view do you want to write in First person narrative-

"I had not intended to kill the annoying little Bosmer, but his constant chatter left me no choice."

Third person narrative- "Psmith had made up his mind. If the stupid elf didn't shut up in the next five seconds, there was going to be blood upon the floor. And it wasn't going to be Psmith's."

Do you want to be humorous, dark, darkly humorous?

The main thing to do is to pick an event, preferably a startling or exciting event, and throw your reader into the action. Write in a style that you like to read. Think about your favorite stories and about what makes them enjoyable. Most of all, write down EVERYTHING, right when you think of it. Then, before you post, makes sure what you have makes sense, moves the story along, and leaves the reader wanting to know 'What happened next?'