Final thoughts:

Well the story wasn't particularly great. I can write a lot better than that (I say defensively) but… excuses… Well I'm writing a werewolf romance series now that has nothing to do with the SW universe and I'm rusty at fanfic. Plus I'm living off the grid and writing at all is a mix of my Alphasmart and charing my laptop on either my car batteries, solar panels should the Pacific Northwestern sun choose to grace me with her presence, and making 12 mile runs into town to catch a cellphone signal. So excuses, there you go.

Has the guide helped you want to write at all? I really hope so. If I can get even one writer to be tempted to make their first fanfic or a new fanfic I'm going to call this project a win!

One final word of advise is to have reasonable expectations and goals. Focus on bettering the things you can change and don't hold your story up to a scale of things you can't control. You can't control how many people read, like, hate, or review your story. There are things you can do to stack the odds in your favor, but don't start thinking things like "I'll be happy if this story gets 10 reviews, unhappy if it gets less than 5". That you can't control. You can't do anything about. Chose a more attainable metric of success, may I recommend the "publish story" button? Writing and publishing the first fic was the hardest for me, 2nd nearly as hard, and then 3rd on out much much easier every time.

Also, I need to write a second edition of this where I fix the plethora of mistakes. Most of this was written on my AA battery powered alphasmart and my spelling while typing on it is… not the best. And I've thought of a few other things I could mention like updating speed and tips for multi-chapter works. So please forgive the numerous errors here now, when I have proper computer setup again I'll tidy this up and revamp the whole thing.

Until then, if you've made it this far you know that you have some work to do: 1,200 to 7,000 words. Don't make me chicken ka-kaw at you. Now go on, git out of 'ere, and start writing!

ps. once again, if you have any questions/comments/anything find me on tumblr at lost-inthesunlight