Chapter Two: Summaries
"What are some things I should keep in mind while making a summary?" "Glad you asked. In your summary, you should give a basic idea of what your Fanfic is about, but not give away the ending or resort to a cliché. If I were to write a romance fanfic, and put that as a category, and I said "will they find a way to make this relationship work?" it would be a cliché, since it's marked as romance. There are also some warnings you should put in your Fanfiction's summary.
If your story features any form of Abuse, Male Pregnancy, Gorey Violence, or Death for example, you should warn people about it in the summary so people know about it and it doesn't come out of nowhere. There are also some specific terms to refer to this. To the ones listed, they would be Abuse, Mpreg, Gore (or something to say there's a lot of violence), and Death. If there is a death, you should also warn if it is very detailed and graphic."
"What if I just don't want to put a summary, since I don't know how to write one?" "Don't not put a summary. Put a summary, no matter how short. If you put a quote relevant to the story from the story, you can use that as a summary. If you say "The summary sucks" or you use chat speak, people won't want to read your Fanfiction since if you don't like your story, why would anyone else? If you use chat speech, it makes people think the entire story is typed like that. A summary is the first thing someone sees of your story before it's published, so take your time making it," Ally informed Cece. "I didn't know that," Cece realized. "That's what I'm here for," Ally reassured the new writer.
A/N: Now that you know how to make a Summary, you need to know how to properly Rate a Fanfiction. That's what we'll do next week!