Hey? This account will be solely for the use of Sisters Grimm FF University? Why? I'm going to teach you the DO's and DON'T's of WRITING A FANFICTION and FANFICTION ITSELF.

You may flame me or even hate me for doing this, but I just want to give you some advice. I'm gonna tackle the most common clichés, Mary-Sues, how to review properly, OOC-ness, you name it. Suggest what I should do next. So there you have it. This guide is meant to help you, but I will be brutally honest in the process. With any luck, I'll make even one fanfiction better. Enjoy.

Based Off Of: Avoiding Clichés Like The Plague

LESSON ONE: TITLES, SUMMARIES AND RATINGS

As Socks-With-Stripes said in her story: Avoiding Clichés Like The Plague: They say "Don't judge a book by its cover." The unfortunate thing about fanfiction is that people, myself included, do tend to judge your story by its "cover."

Topic #1: The Title

She's right you know. Try to get your story to catch the eye of one scrolling through FanFiction. Make the title intriguing, awesome, mysterious even. and try to make it unique too, it would be easier to search for on Google.

What would catch your eye more? Something called For The First Time (CREDIT GOES TO LARA D) or DAPHERSEED FLUFF! (Sorry to anyone who actually named their story that.)

Also, make sure to use proper grammar, spelling, and capitalize your title.

I would definitely not give a story called, let's say, "dapherseed fluf" a second glance. Why? Because it's not capitalized, it's an uninteresting title, and fluff is spelled this way (Fluff) not that way (fluf)

And under no circumstances do you name a story "No Title" or something like "I Don't Know What My Title Is Yet". Don't do that, you might have one awesome story there but readers will think you're unimaginative and boring.

Topic #2: The Summary

Making a summary is hard, especially with only 255 characters if I'm not mistaken. Which is why I'm helping you here.

Let's start with this; things to not put in your summary.

1. You cannot put "T because/'cause I'm paranoid". Don't do that. You even have a rating guide to tell you whether to make it T, K, or K+. T is for when your story has some violence, minor coarse language, and minor suggestive adult themes, as it says in the rating guide. Does your story have any of those? K+ it is! Also, putting that in your summary means that you have wasted 17/16 characters of your 255.

2. "My first fic." No, just no. Do you want to improve? You need to be treated as everyone else so you'll get some constructive criticism. You do want that right? Other than that, it wastes 13 characters out of your 255. And since you already have such a limited space, you probably don't want to waste anything at all.

3. "No flames" Saying no flames will guarantee you flames, I'm sorry, but it's true.

4. "I suck at summaries." is equal to "I suck at writing." Because you can't seem to even describe your own story!

5. "Full Summary Inside" Humans are lazy beings. If you say your summary is inside, we will not click on it.

OK, that's it for now, so let's move on to how to write a summary.

Make it sound intriguing like your title, but don't give that much away. Make sure it describes your story in a mysterious way, so that readers would want to know what happens next. Capiche?

Also, please, please, please, use proper Grammar. No text speak allowed, it's annoying and hard to read.

Topic #3: Ratings

As I said, a lot of people tend to rate their stories as T for the following reasons.

1. "T because I'm paranoid" I don't find being paranoid as a good excuse to rate your story T, so no.

2. "T because Puck can't exactly be in a K story." Once again, T is for when your story has some violence, minor coarse language, and minor suggestive adult themes, as it says in the rating guide. Does your story have any of those? K+ it is! Does Puck do any of those? I don't think so, except for violence, but if your story doesn't exactly have violence in it, even with Puck there. It has to be a K story.

3. "T because K sounds lame." No, just, no. I don't care if K sounds lame! You need to rate your story right!

So let's put together two titles and summaries, and compare:

1. dapherseed fluff

what if dapnhe and mseed were together? find out in this stry!

and...

2. Kiss

"So you kissed Sabrina?" "Daphne, shut up."

Which would you rather read? Tell me!

Enjoyed the first installment of Sisters Grimm FF University? Then make sure to check out the next chapter as soon as it's out! The next chapter on this story shall be either...

1. Mary-Sues

2. Grammar and Spelling

3. OOC-ness and AU's*

Leave your vote in the reviews!

*if you choose #3 I highly recommend to give me suggestions on what OOC-ness I might tackle or some common AU's in this fandom.