Well, been writing fanfiction again. I have one published story — see the fanfiction page for more detail — which is the one I’m currently writing (it is multi-chaptered story). Some reviews I have got tells me that it is good beginning. I have read stories before, and I know how annoy it is to wait. But with that first chapter, I have at least a hundred dafts and took around four months to complete. Now with chapter 2, I’m already at draft five. Should finish is a week. I have been writing this (second) chapter for one and a half already. Sorry all readers.

OK, back to the topic. These are a few writing tips I want to share. Some are from other resources, some are mine. If you think any tips has been posted anywhere before, let me know and I’ll credit it.

  1. Always have a beta-reader. No matter how god are you in English grammar/spelling. I’m a beta reader myself for other stories, but I still need a beta reader.
  2. If you are using Microsoft Word, try turning on full grammar/style checker. It is useful. The style checker can check for wordiness and several other useful errors. Although you should not turn on the ‘Passive Voice’ and ‘Use of first person pronoun’ checker, or your document will be marked with a lot of error.
  3. Try writing a shorter piece of text, and lengthen it. My chapter usually around 650 words, and I lengthen it to ~2,000 words. But beware not to lengthen it too much. As said on SIYE, ‘not too much nor too little details’.

OK, ‘a few’ can be referred to three, right? That’s all.