MitsuiSelphie’s Fan Fic Clinic Opens
Yesterday, I was surfing a forum when I saw someone said she likes the fan fiction I write. The girl is ten years younger than I and it made me realize how old I am!
I wasn’t active in any fandom until 2001 but I have been writing fan fiction since 1999. During that time, there were but a few of us in our fandom (Slam Dunk), that we all knew one another. In fact, one of the “fan fiction guides” I had written in 2001 had been archived in a big anime forum because it was part of the early fan fiction boom.
Now, why am I telling you all these? I’m not claiming to be the most famous or the best fan fic writer around. However, I’ve been in this long enough that I could start giving out advice to the younger generation of fan fic (and in our case here in DOPAMINE, dream novel) writers. And besides, I think I promised this to one of our readers long ago, I just forgot to follow through.
Hence, for any of you who want to start writing fan fiction (or dream novels), you are very welcome to ask me anything — I’ll try to answer them all. Simply post your questions in this thread OR if you want to remain anonymous, you can email me at mitsuiselphie[@]gmail.com — I promise I won’t divulge your identity if you don’t want me to.
You can consult me on anything — from fan fiction basics right down to questions about grammar and punctuation (though I don’t claim to be a pundit). I will be addressing any question sent one by one for our regular discussions.
That’s it, I will be waiting for your questions. 
Wow, that’s very kind of you… I used to write fanfics earlier on FF.net (and got a review a few days ago about one I wrote back in ‘03 that I discontinued).
I’m wondering how one can write expressively and excitingly (sp?), in order to make the reader moved and want to continued to read? Sometimes I feel that I have problems with that, that the text doesn’t move the story along so much…
Great question, Sia. Frankly, I thought I was only going to get simple newbie questions. However, your query will greatly benefit writers of varying levels so I’ll address it this weekend.
The Fan Fic Clinic will be open only for a limited time, guys. So post your questions before I feel like I’ve gotten enough to answer for quite some time.