Kafaru's Guide to Writing Naruto Fan-Fiction.

Chapter One: The Basics of Fiction.

Let's talk Fan-Fiction. A fiction story that revolves around a popular series written by fans. I however am here to talk about a certain series that has many Fanfics, Naruto. Naruto has got MANY fan-fictions from rates K to Mature. However there are some people who don't know how to write one or aren't to good at it. That's Why I pen-name Kafaru am here to show you how to make a hopefully good Naruto Fic. But first we need the basics of story writing.

This is a list and definitions of what is or not needed for Stories.

Plot: A brainstorm of what will happen and what's going on in the story

Setting: A Time and Place of when and where the story will start.

Theme: A theme is what might happen occasionally in a story like Death, Romance, or Humor.

Protagonist: The Character that the story is centered around. An example would be Uzumaki Naruto

Antagonist: the Centered Character's enemy. Example, Sasuke, Orochimaru and so fourth

Climax: The BIGGEST event in the story

Internal conflict: an Ultimate decision that might/will change a character's life

External Conflict: Kinda hard to describe but it would be like Naruto Vs The village's hatred for him and how he deals with it.

Resolution: A resolve of the problem or ending of the story.

Or if you're like me you just start writing away and get ideas as you go along.

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You will need:

A brain

A imagination

Music(A definite for me)

And some ideas

Someone or something to help you fix and Check your spelling and Grammar errors.

Now that we have that out of the way let me show something so that you can do this too. When writing a story always start a new paragraph after the fifth/sixth sentence and ALWAYS start a new paragraph when some starts to speak, Heres an Example.

Naruto ran towards his team with great joy.

"Hey Guys!" Naruto called out to the three ninja.

That is what you should do so people don't get confused when reading, because there are people who just leave GIANT clumps of sentences put together. Though that may not be their fault because sometimes FF gets a little screwy with the documents.

Now let's start part one with inspiration.

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Part 1. Inspiration.

Okay so some people may want to know how or where I get my Ideas well, they just pop up when I'm doing something. For instance when I made Naruto The Sk8er Boy I was actually typing out a script for a comic I wanted to do but ended up turning it into a story instead. Of the Legends was inspired by a song called Chosen One from Pokemon 2000. And my latest Fanfic The True Meaning to Care was inspired by another Naruto Fic called IGNORANCE.

So for coming up with ideas listen to music, read some other stories, and maybe watch some movies and stuff.

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Part 2. Story Genres.

Heres a list of Genres and some that aren't in the actual List with definitions.

Action: Many parts with fights and possibly other things.

Adventure: This is when a Character goes to a place to retrieve an object or something probably written from the start all the way to finish without skipping everything (Meaning that they don't suddenly set foot and a paragraph later they're there. Skipping a day or two probably wont matter)

Angst: A person either angry with them self or another person or many people.

AU: Alternate Universe, When we re-write our own version a story to the way we like it. A Couple great examples would be Dragon Man 180's Naruto The Kitsune Hanyouand Neokenshin's A new life in a new landThis also includes High School fics and modern day fics.Also the way I see it is that everyone practically makes a AU without knowing because we're writing something around the same timelines as the series.

Bashing: Where you bash a character either for the fun of it or you just don't like them much. A good example would be The Fifth Rider of Armageddon's Hell Sharingan which has Sakura bashing in it. This would also include Mary-Sue bashing which we will get to in the next chapter.

Crossover: AKA X-Over where the series meet another series or more and a great example would be RasenganFin's Hinata's Guardian where Naruto goes into many dimensions of different series and even into Neokenshin's A new life in a new landstory. And another great example would be Andrew Joshua Talon's Key Through the Heart which is a Naruto Kingdom Hearts mix and Naruto is a Key bearer.

Fantasy: Okay this would be where I shine in defining. A story where something Magical happens to a character or more this would go very well with Adventure and Romance. Maybe a Fairy or person from another world goes into the hero's realm looking for the chosen one(s). Or in my favorite type of series Mahou Shoujo or Shoujo where someone is really a magical being.

General: I really can't define this maybe more than two genres put together.

Humor: Like I need to define this an Omake is a sub category to this.

Omakes: A Funny outtake of the original story.

Hurt/comfort: Or possibly Fluff another of my favorites. This is when a character is upset and another comforts them.

Oneshot: A story that's only a chapter long.

Romance: A story about two characters having feelings for each other and eventually tell each other that they love them and it goes well with many other genres but not all unless you good at pulling it off and here a some Sub Categories.

Yaoi/Yuri:

A homosexuality romance. I'm not to good at explaining these two but I have read some Yaoi but I don't write it.

Harem/reverse Harem:

One of types I extremely don't like except for some but this would mean a character having many girls/men as their lovers and threesomes don't count. But this would also go into homosexual Harems as well.

Song-Fics: Basically a fiction when the character starts to sing and start to remember some stuff.

If anyone wants to PM me for extra Genres I didn't put in I'll be sure to put them in.

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Tips & Hints to this chapter's guide.

Okay for those of you who want to write a story and you have the plot already but don't know how to type/write it well heres what I do. I imagine it animated in my head what's going on and why, and type it out that way.

For Spelling and Grammar you could have a beta reader or ask someone on your story account to check it over for you but be sure to credit them for helping you.

If you copy some parts of a story or use someone's idea please credit that said writer because if you don't you'll piss off allot of people and that could get you banned from FF.

When you have an idea and don't want to forget it, do what I do and type it down. I have a list of ideas and stories on my computer so I don't forget them.

Next time on Kafaru's Guide to Writing Naruto Fan-Fiction. Let's Talk Clans and Family, Creating OCs, and more AU.

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Credits: Heres the stories I mention and if you want you could read them but I'll tell you that these are WAY too good to miss out on.

Key Through the Heart by: Andrew Joshua Talon

Hell Sharingan by: The Fifth Rider of Armageddon

Hinata's Guardian by: RasenganFin

A new life in a new land Neokenshin

Naruto The Kitsune Hanyou by:Dragon Man 180