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This is a short quiz to help me out with a new project I am
working on....Thanks for the imput! Now on with the quiz....
1:
What color text, background, and font size are easiest to read on?
Black on white is the typical
good colors plus a size 10 or more font size. For my fics,
I've used lime green text on a upholstery-looking bg, white text on
green seamless bg, bright yellow on a purplish-black-green bg, and
my latest one, navy blue text with grayish-purple bg. For the
first four shorts, I did the text in colors of the main turtles
like red for Raph, orange for Mike, and so on. Then
afterwards, any projects that are short I use only black and
white. Ugh, I can be so confusing!
2: What make a Fan
Fic look professional?
~Good grammer, perfect spelling,<cough
cough>, proper punctuation and oh please, paragraphs.
Yeah, just
like that. :) Also, try expanding your horizons and take
your characters to vast new places around the world. Not only does
it make you look like you're a professional at traveling, it
keeps the reader wanting more!
3:
Does.....this....annoy...people.......when....they....are......reading......a
fan.....fic?
Yeah, I don't like to do it a
lot but sometimes when a character hesitates in dialogue, they
don't stop fully on a period. They kind of take a pause or a
breather. For example: "I really don't know what to do about him,
I...I think I love him!" :D
4: What other thing are
annoying when reading Fan Fiction?
~When characters are changed beyond all
recognition. This sort of goes back to that previous thread about
messing with the creators intent. Push 'em to the max, bend, but don't
break your character's personality. I think a good example of this done
well was ss979's Mourning Light. She wrote a very different
Michaelangelo, but gave him a good reason for his uncharacteristic
behavior. And really, you can only do this if you are already very
confident about your "normal" characterization of them. Like "you
can't break the rules unless you know what the rules
are."
~GW
Good answer. When you sit there and go, "April would NEVER do
that!" If you're going to stick to a universe, you should stick to
how they talk and act in it. Like if I read a fic in the cartoon
world and they started using the f-word, I sit there and shake my
head. It's out of character and certainly not how they
act in the cartoon! The author should tell us they're using
that world and combine it with their own!
Among other annoying things are 'see Spot run' sentences when they
don't make sense or have lack of detail. Run-ons aren't good,
either, so know when to put that period there. Although, I've read
professionally-written novels with tons of run-ons before! Go
fig! I'm just as bad, who am I foolin? :P
It's funny how we rate stories as being excellent but then nit-pick
the little problems from them. I think every story is great
imagination and creative-wise, but what makes a story even better is if
the person knows how to write. Ya know? So, we say we love a
story mostly for what's going on with it and hardly give the writer a
hard time with grammar, spelling, and such.
And I'm done with this post.
Brinatello
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