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As many of you know, I earned a Certificate in Technical Communication last year. As part of my coursework, I had to create a user guide or best practices manual on... well, pretty much anything. The projects that the instructors showed us from years past included some "conventional" guides for software and gadgets, but also included topics like "How to Eat Sushi," "How to Look Like Audrey Hepburn," and "How to Build a Steel Drum."
Under the circumstances, I felt comfortable writing a Fan-Fiction Best Practices Guide.
After some consideration, I've decided that I'm going to start posting it here.
Before I do, let's get some basics out of the way:
Do I have any credibility left?
Okay. As far as reproduction and copying goes, I took out a creative commons license:
Playing In Someone Else's Sandbox: Best Practices for Fan-Fiction, from Planning to Posting—and Beyond by Ellen Fleischer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Basically? You can quote me, share me, and make modifications so long as you also share alike. No commercial use permitted.
Oh and I know a decent amount of html, but putting in hyperlinks not just to a specific post, but to a specific point within the post isn't something I'm so sure about. As I figure it out, I'll probably be going in and improving the entries.
Under the circumstances, I felt comfortable writing a Fan-Fiction Best Practices Guide.
After some consideration, I've decided that I'm going to start posting it here.
Before I do, let's get some basics out of the way:
- I'm not the fandom police, and I'm not the world's greatest authority ever. Far from it. A lot of what I've included in the guide is basic commonsense and stuff I've learned not to do from hanging out in rant and discussion communities.
- It's a guidebook. It's giving guidelines, not rules set in stone. e.e. cummings could write like e.e. cummings, ignoring capitialization and writing poetry like:
anyone lived in a pretty how town
with up so floating many bells down
Most of us can't get away with that. However, there might be a couple who can. My guide is not addressed to them. - Following my guidelines won't guarantee that you'll receive scads of reviews, accolades, or abs of steel and a voice like a nightingale. On the other hand, they may help.
Do I have any credibility left?
Okay. As far as reproduction and copying goes, I took out a creative commons license:
Playing In Someone Else's Sandbox: Best Practices for Fan-Fiction, from Planning to Posting—and Beyond by Ellen Fleischer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Basically? You can quote me, share me, and make modifications so long as you also share alike. No commercial use permitted.
Oh and I know a decent amount of html, but putting in hyperlinks not just to a specific post, but to a specific point within the post isn't something I'm so sure about. As I figure it out, I'll probably be going in and improving the entries.
