Fidelia Weave's Writing Tips

By Fidelia Weave

PROLOGUE:

Hello, everyone! I'm Fidelia Weave. You might recognize the name, but then again, you might not. I'm sort of a little famous? I wouldn't say I'm really famous. I don't get recognized on the street. I've actually never been recognized at all. My stories aren't best-sellers. I have to admit they're only average in quality. But among a very small niche fanbase, I'm sort of mediocre famous. It's enough that I'm able to make a modest living here in the Capitol.

How about a little background? I was born in the Capitol. Unfortunately, I was sadly below average. Most people here are glamorously wealthy, but my family was just sort of lower-class. I would have actually had to work in order to support myself. However, I discovered at a young age that I am very lazy. That's where the Hunger Games comes in.

It's a commonly accepted if somewhat ghastly truth that Capitol children like to play mock Hunger Games. They all make a pretend character and make complex role-playing games where they collectively decide on placings and winners. I'm really not so much a writer as an organizer, since I don't come up with the characters in my stories. I also don't come up with a lot of the events in the stories, since I am a shameless plagiarist and steal ideas from other stories all the time. I just make sure the books I use are so old they're public domain. Legally it's not plagiarism. It's an homage. Anyway, I applied my elementary writing skills and started to offer my services as a role-playing headmaster of sorts. I do the actual writing and distribute our collective adventures in serial form. I don't charge a set amount, but my readers enjoy my stories enough that they donate funds, enough that I can do this for a living. It's a win-win. They get stories, I get to be lazy.

At this point, I've had a lot of experience. I've written seventeen collective Hunger Games adventures, as well as a handful of related one-off stories. I've written characters of all sorts and Arenas of all kinds. I've dealt with every sort of contributor and even incorporated other stories. It's gotten to the point where I consider myself knowledgeable enough to write a story about writing stories. Many great authors write handbooks for aspiring young writers. I'm not a great author, but I'm going to do it anyway, since Panem is a free country and I love it very much, especially all the politicians!

There are countless ways to write collaborative Hunger Games stories. My style is only one style. Nothing in here is definitive, so any callow young writer can take what she likes and leave what she doesn't. I plan on publishing multiple editions of this book, so please feel free to suggest additions for future editions. Thanks for reading, thanks for your money, and I hope you enjoy!

Fourth wall? What's that? Anyway, I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but I didn't want to break any rules. Thus I went meta. It's not a guide, it's a guide written by a Hunger Games character set inside the Hunger Games world! I'll just be writing this in-between SYOT chapters when I have time or I'm waiting for votes.