User blog:EvergreenLeaf/Leaf's Guide to Loving and Writing Your Fanfic

Hello again you lovely people! Leaf here and this is my attempt at writing up a little guide, but not weapons, or teams, or anything like, I decided to give people tips on how to love writing your fanfic if you want to do one. Not how to write it, I can't tell you that, but how you can love to write it. Sure there may be a few tips and such on writing, but if there are don't trust them too much. I'm a terrible writer (my fanfic proved it :P).

Tip 1:  Write about something you like or want to write about, not something that you think that the fanon will like. If you want to go for popular favour, I'm sure that you can pull off something great, but if your fanfic is based on something that you like to write about, or something you like, then go ahead and write about it. fanfics do have to be RWBY related, but I'm sure we can mix and match things up to fit the RWBY universe. Say for instance you like.... muffins. You can write about a RWBY muffin baking contest or something related like that! You'll enjoy writing it, and your writing will also take a turn upward, I'm not guaranteeing it, but the chances are high.

 Tip 2:  Make an outline! An outline is like a blueprint for your story. By making an outline and following it, you're much less likely to go off tangent and start talking about somethign else entirely. You do not have to use the outline for the full story if you do not want to, but it helps get your ideas and a storyline in order.

 Tip 3:  Edit. The tip which every single English or Creative Writing teacher will give you. Edit, edit, edit. Always edit. You often find mistakes on the third or fourth review which you may not have noticed on the first or second. I may have told you at the beginning not to trust my writing tips, but this is probably the only one which should be followed. Editng makes everything so much better, but it's not absolutely necessary if you're just writing your fanfic or fun and such. However, editing, works.

 Tip 4:  Make the fanfic like you. Don't get what that means? What I'm saying (and forgive me for the cheesiness) is that your fanfic ought to have a bit of you, a bit of your soul, a bit of your own self in it. Put your heart into it! Write it with every fibre of your soul, put everything that youy have into it and watch it blossom into amazingness! Just make sure you have enough you left afterwards in your body that you survive. But I always feel a bit better when reading my stories when I know that I've put my heart and soul into the writing. Bah, sorry for that bit of mushiness. Promise it wont happen again.

 Tip 5:  Keep it in perspective. You have an idea for your fanfic, I reccommend (unless you want to pull an Inception like move or something, which is awesome) that you stick to taht plan. If you start off with a RWBY Bake Off and then suddenly transform it into a full out world war (which would be kinda awesome, but...) the story has lost what it was originally meant to be about. If you wish to add plot twists, go right ahead, but try to keep it in perspective, or if you go completely out of perspective, make sure you segue it in well.

Those are all the tips I have to offer for fanfic writing. I hope this was at least a bit helpful, if not completely, but I look forward to reading all your fanfics in the future. Also, feel free to link your own fanfic in the comments below. I'd love to read some! :D

Leaf.