The Do's and Don't's to writing a Dramione Fan Fiction.

Step one:

Do…make them fall in love.

Do not…make them fall in love within the first paragraph.

Not many people will read it after that.

Step two:

Do…speculate on the war (if the story takes place in that time frame)

Do not…claim that they are going to die if they are together as their main argument.

It's been said so many times that the readers expect it. Pick a different angle.

Step three:

Do…include their friendships and classes.

Do not…alienate them for 10 chapters and in chapter 11 re-introduce all the other characters in the middle of a relationship crisis.

Step four:

Do…make them Head Boy and Girl

DO NOT!…make them share a living space and/or bathroom.

It has been done so many times (by myself as well) that again the readers expect it.

Step five:

Do…keep Lucius Malfoy a Death Eater.

Do not…include the rest of the bloody school among his ranks as well.

Step six:

Do….let them have sex.

DO NOT!…use the words 'sopping' or 'love box'

*shudders* They're just gross.

Step seven:

Do…let them get married.

Do not…let them get married at Malfoy Manor because a new Marriage Law has claimed that everybody should be married off.

It was a good plot the first 100 times it was used.

Step eight:

Do…allow them to form a solid relationship (if they are in school) before letting them fuck each other stupid. Let's remember that all teenagers are not horny little fuckers.

Do not…let them see each other on the train and find an empty compartment and shag until they're heart's content.

Step nine:

Do…allow them the use of radios!

DO NOT!…give them iPod's and laptops (unless they are living in the Muggle community)

because let's face it…THEY STILL WRITE WITH QUILLS…they don't need laptops.

Step ten:

Do…allude on Draco's alleged sexual past.

Do not…make Draco the "Slytherin Sex God"

Really. Do I even have to explain this one to you.


A/N: Again I am back from yet another long and unneeded hiatus. This was just something I had been dabbling in for a long while. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE OFFENSE TO IT. Your story is your own. Do with it as you please. Just trying to get back out there in the writing game. :)