Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Gender: Female

Age: 19

I'm more of a reader than a writer. I've been reading stories on here since I was 9 and didn't even have an account until a few months ago. Mostly this is because I get attacked by plot bunnies and then I can't finish even one chapter, just a short scene that doesn't even make sense to me. I'm trying to work on that, though it's not exactly going well. Oh well. Baby steps, 'Mira, baby steps.

Anyway, I assume you're here to check out my favourites list, not for my rambling, so go ahead, never mind me, I'm just sitting here trying get my creative juices to actually flow instead of dripping...

The Fanfic Writer's Code of Honor

Bold whatever you need to work on

1. Use SpellCheck and proper grammar. I don't care how interesting your story is. If you have the grammatical skills of a drunken third grader, no one is going to read it.

2. Update! Not every day, but more than once a year. If you don't update for a ridiculously long period of time or discontinue it, put your story up for adoption. (should be obvious why)

3. No Sues or Stus. No exceptions.

4. Leave reviews. Everyone begs for them- you included- so you should honor other people's wishes and give them out.

5. ANs shouldn't be longer than the chapter itself.

6. Don't write too many incomplete stories at the same time. You'll end up stretching yourself thin and making no progress on any of them.

7. If thirty plus people point out a plot hole, out of character moment, or other error, go back and fix it.

8. (Optional, but probably a good idea) Leave a "will." Have someone who, if you don't update for X months, will either adopt your stories or find someone else to continue them.

Kurt Vonnegut's Tips on Writing:

1 - Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2 - Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3 - Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4 - Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.

5 - Start as close to the end as possible.

6 - Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7 - Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8 - Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

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