How To Write A Successful Minecraft Fanfiction

2: Organization

This also goes for all books, not just Minecraft fanfictions.

This is also a common mistake I see in other books. If you don't write in paragraphs with spaces in between, like I'm doing here and in all of my books, it will be difficult to read.

I'm not good at explaining things, so I'm going to give an example of what not to do. The following is an excerpt of "A Minecraft Story", but changed to look bad:

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"Th-the what?" Steve asked.
"The Resistance," Lourd replied. "Ya know, the group of rebels you organized into a Resistance of Mojang?"
"I...I don't remember any of that," Steve said, confused.
"Of course you don't," Lourd replied. "Mojang erased your memories. But don't worry, we can get them back again."
Steve's eyes widened. "We can?! How?"
"Now, now. First we need to fill you in. Have a seat," Lourd said. "You too, Ruby and Jay."
The three of them took their seats in chairs that guards brought up for them. Lourd leaned forward in his.
"First Steve, tell us your story, starting from when you woke up," Lourd said.

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You may be able to read that, but it looks so much better like this:

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"Th-the what?" Steve asked.

"The Resistance," Lourd replied. "Ya know, the group of rebels you organized into a Resistance of Mojang?"

"I...I don't remember any of that," Steve said, confused.

"Of course you don't," Lourd replied. "Mojang erased your memories. But don't worry, we can get them back again."

Steve's eyes widened. "We can?! How?"

"Now, now. First we need to fill you in. Have a seat," Lourd said. "You too, Ruby and Jay."

The three of them took their seats in chairs that guards brought up for them. Lourd leaned forward in his.

"First Steve, tell us your story, starting from when you woke up," Lourd said.

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I believe the rule is: every time a new character says something, they get a new paragraph. In places without dialogue, try to split them into shorter paragraphs so they don't look too long and blocky.

Separating your paragraphs also allows readers to comment on specific things easier. That's what inline comments are for. If everything is one big block, it will be more difficult to comment.

Also, don't write your entire story in bold. Most people associate bold with headings or author's notes. There are some exceptions to when you can use bold (maybe when someone is really really loud?), but if you're unsure, just stick to regular text.

This goes for italics and underlining too, although italics has more uses. Italics are usually used to show characters' inner thoughts, flashbacks, emphasis, or to make long quotes from something look better.

I've never really needed underlining except for in "Radish's Kik Comps", where I show stats. I don't know what else you would really use underlining for, besides headings like point of views or settings.

Also, don't try indenting paragraphs like in essays. I used to do that, but 1) it's too much work (there is no tab button on mobile), and 2) nobody does it on Wattpad anyway. If you're writing a real story that you want to publish, though, you should indent every paragraph.

And don't use this ^ unless you're writing a poem or something. It just doesn't look as good. But again, there are exceptions.

And never use this ^ in actual storytelling. Again, there are certain exceptions. I can't really think of any, though.

Also, unless your story needs them, stay away from using emojis/emoticons in your writing. I know I used ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in TDMR, but that's because I gave up on life.

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^ that reminds me, always capitalize the first letter of a sentence in actual writing. But that's first grade stuff, I don't need to say that here.

Basically, separate your paragraphs, stay away from bold and underlining in your actual writing, only use italics for thoughts, emphasis, flashbacks, and quotes, keep the beginnings of your paragraphs on the left, don't use emojis/emoticons, and always capitalize the first letter of a sentence.

Of course, there are exceptions to the above rules, but generally, stories look much better if you follow them.

Authors, feel free to leave any other advice on writing organization here. (I'm going to do a separate chapter for storyline organization)

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