Articles about fanfiction

General Tips on writing (fan) fiction

• Dr. Merlin's Guide to Fanfiction
• General Fandom and Fanfiction Glossary
• The use of cliche in alternative fan fiction
• Advice for Aspiring Authors! (It's baa-aack!)
• Fan fiction Cheat Sheet Index
• How to write almost readable fan fiction
• "The Purple Prose Eater" by Deb Stover
• Character Design Tutorial by ShadowKyogre
• How to Write Fanfiction: Tips for Writing, and Making Sure Somebody Reads Your Fanfiction
• Meta: Freud/Stanislavsky=OTP; or, why canon 'matters'.
• On the phenomenon of "comfort sex" in fanfiction
• The Problem with songfic
• Guide to understanding badfic writers

About the Mary Sue Phenomenon

• A Historical Perspective on Mary Sue
• Self-Insertion and Mary-Sue-ism
• Welcome To The Official Mary Sue Society Avatar Appreciation Site!
• The Dread Mary Sue
• The Thundercats Mary Sue (hard to read)
• The Essential Guide to Mary-Sue (Lord of the Rings)
• The Anti Mary-Sue Club
• Archive for the 'Mary Sue / Gary Stu' Category
• Piratesmonkey Mary Sue Comic
• Making Light - Namarie Sue
• deleterius - Pass the Sporks & Bleeprin
• Shameless Setteis and Mary Sues
• Too good to be true: 150 years of Mary Sue
• Is your MC a Mary-Sue? (An interesting discussion thread)
• Whatever Happened to Mary Sue?
• A way with worlds: Dark Mary Sue
• Saving Mary Sue
• A Plague of Mary Sues Upon Thine Head
• The Trouble with Mary (Star Wars)

A link list for Litmus Tests

• The (Original) Mary Sue Litmus Test (for Gargoyles Fanfiction)
• The Lord of the Rings Mary Mary Sue Litmus Test
• Another Lord of the Rings Mary Sue Litmus Test
• What's in a name? Harry Potter and the Mary Sue Litmus Test
• The Mary Sue Litmus Test For Labyrinth Fanfiction
• The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
• The Mary Sue Litmus test for Angel/Buffy fanfiction (pop-up ads)
• The Mary Sue Litmus Test: Star Wars/Star Fox Edition
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Mary Sue Litmus Test
• A Mary Sue Litmus Test for Star Trek Fanfiction
• A Mary Sue Litmus Test for Buffy/Angel Fanfiction
• Stargate SG-1 Mary Sue Litmus Test
• Stargate SG-1 automated Mary Sue Litmus Test
• Is your original character a Mary Sue?
• Try at an original fantasy Mary Sue litmus test
• Mary Sue Litmus Test adapted for Thunderbirds
• Mary Sue Litmus Test for Pokemon
• The Mary Sue Test For Digimon
• An Earth Final Conflict Mary Sue Litmus Test
• The ER Mary Sue Litmus Test
• The "Gladiator" Mary Sue Litmus Test
• The Les Miserables Mary Sue Litmus Test
• The Newsies Mary Sue Litmus Test
• The Mary Sue Test For Real People
• Vehicle Voltron Mary Sue Litmus Test
• The Writer's Mary Sue Test
• The Street-Fighter Mary Sue Litmus Test

German Links / Links zu Seiten in deutscher Sprache

• Erotisches Schreiben
• Fanfictionland.com - Trickkiste für Fanfic-Schreiber
• "Mary Sue" - zu Recht als Geißel der Fanfiction betrachtet?
• Deutsche Übersetztung des Harry Potter Mary Sue Litmus Tests

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