Otaku's Writing Tips! {❤}Research {This WILL improve your writing!}

Research

Before you can write an Essay for any class subject, you have to Google the topic or even more, look up the books on the subject to write a paper on it.

Writing a fanfic works in the same fashion. We must know the theme, topic, or even more the events within the fanfic thick and through to properly right it. You don't want those bad comments that were put on E.L James do for not knowing how actually works, do you?

If you are just thinking like 'I want to write a new story or a story at all'. You can write on something you already know about or be different, learn something new and present it in your writing.

Let's say you want to write a fanfic on a vampire, I strongly suggest you actually look up the the past about Vampires. Don't just settle on what people here and TV feeds you. Do you know where they actually started and began? Was it before Dracula or after? You have to think outside the box sometimes, no all the time.

We have the internet here. It's best to go read on Wikipedia first, blogs or even find related books online. (Yes, nothing in this world is 100 percent fact. Not even paterinty tests are a 100. It's about getting the idea and twisting for a story that isn't true itself. We should relay on our creativity, unless you are writing non-fiction) For example in my fanfic Cigars On Ice my character has borderline personality and other disorders. I just don't go by what I just read on some WebMD, but go read the books. Learn what they go through perfectly, be it the struggle or even the imperfection. Sure it takes some time, but when you get the depth of your story you can convey the emotions more properly as well, which is what I will explain next time: The Emotion