How to Make Your Stories Interesting from the Perspective of a Reader 101
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Last published Sun, Mar 7, 2021
I read a LOT of fanfiction- really I read more than I'd ever like to admit, but I find that I discard a lot of these stories right when I start reading them because sometimes they are almost unreadable. Sometimes I'll read the first paragraph and I'll have to throw it out of my library right then, but I want to help with this. In this needed book I plan on explaining some of the things I hate to find in fanfics that make me just want to throw the whole book away.
Keep in mind this are mostly my opinion, but I find that a lot of my friends and fellow readers can relate to these things. Maybe you can even change some of the ways you write your own stories so they can be the best for your readers?
(P.S. I don't really know why I made this book)
(P.P.S. I plan on being extremely insensitive about this- you can blame me being a gemini, but if you don't like that than I'd prefer you forget about ever seeing this book.)
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