User blog comment:Soundandimage/total drama before all-stars/@comment-2186558-20130727133034

first off, welcome to the wiki! i'm really happy you joined and i hope you have a great time here. secondly- and i don't mean this in a mean way, i'm just telling you!- you shouldn't care about what people think of the characters before the story actually starts, because even if we hated them in the show, you may write them in such a way that will make us love the character in your story. however, you should start being concerned about people not liking your characters once you write the first chapter, and you should try to change them or eliminate them soon if everybody hates a certain one.

and for some more tips that help in general:

1) don't just upload the fanfiction as soon as possible! try to plan ahead a little for eliminations and characters plot lines and write a chapter or two first, because otherwise, you could either hit writers block or just realize that you don't like writing the story.

2) don't just focus on two or three characters- while having main characters is perfectly fine, we all want the other characters to have screentime and depth to them too, or else we dont care about anyone except for the few you decide to focus on (and generally, when you focus on just a few characters it's obvious that they'll make it pretty far)

3) try to create your own characters! and i don't mean that you should only write seasons with original characters, i mean that you should make your characters original and creative- even in this fanfiction, try and make the characters different then what they are in the show and put your own little spin on them (but dont change them so much that they dont act anything like they do in the show), so that people will have a reason to like them more then they do in the show or other fanfictions that us the same characters.

4) try and use correct spelling and grammar- and i realize how hypocritical this seems as i only type in lowercase when i'm not writing for a story, but if i actually did write a fanfiction in the same way that i'm typing this message out to you, no one would read it no matter how great everything else i did was, because they would assume i was an idiot and the lack of uppercase would just bug them anyways.

5) don't write a story just to get it popular! trust me, people can tell when you do that, and it makes the story a lot worse than it would be if you just write it because you think it's fun (which also means that if you don't want to continue writing a story, you shouldn't- unless you're at like the final chapter, make your own decisions, and don't write something just cause everyone else wants you to).

i hope you have a lot of fun writing your story, and i'll be sure to check it out!