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Harry Potter fandom, eh? The Divison of More Dakka issues you a refractor field, suitable for stopping curses, lascannon shots, and other such annoyances the Sues may launch your way.

*hug*

Okay, have an egg whisk! It's shiny, gold-plated, and whisks not only eggs, but spambots and author wraiths as well! Use it for good and not evil.

Welcome to the insanity! XD

*while chewing various baked goods* You sure don't waste any time out here, do ya?


mmmmmmmm....lembas

Welcome to the PPC. Have some banana chips. Bananas are good. Great source of potassium.

*hands over introductory plate of lembas*

Welcome to the PPC Board! No doubt others will come along later and give you links to the many and multifarious places and info that we have on the PPC, so I am just going to do my usual and throw baked goods at you :)

-Trojie, hoping that the sugar in the lembas won't be a problem ...

Hi there, everybody...
After weeks of lurking and just trying to find out everything I could abut the PPC, I decided to make myself known.

My main fandom is Harry Potter, although I know a thing or two about House and Twilight, (who can hate vampires?)

I am not the sort of person who should be given energy drinks. Or pixie stix. Otherwise, I go from just plain random to utter psycho. My dorm mates at band camp learned this the hard way...

*hangs "Death to Sues" banner and waves*

I apologise for being so... well, frantic last night. Was stressing far too much, I guess, and I certainly didn't realise how difficult a request I was making.

Am weighing up various titles now. Will post a link to the finished piece in a day or so.

(and hS: cheers for Longitude!)

Titles are hard. Various Douglas Adams references come immediately to mind, though I don't know if you can do anything with them:

Fanfiction: Mostly Harmless

An Insider's Guide to the Galaxy--of Fanfiction

Don't Panic! An Insider's Guide to Fanfiction

Etc., etc.

I'll come back if I think of anything better.

~Neshomeh

*swings in wearing Apostrophe Protection Society balaclava*

I apologise for being nitpicky, and not having anything else to add on the subject of minis, but ...

it's 'minis' without the apostrophe :)

Any Mini from a continuum that has an Official Fanfiction University must be formally adopted from the OFU. If they do not have an OFU, then Agents are free to adopt them.

The post regarding Minis below reminded me that I needed to ask this.

I need Mini ideas for the following fandoms:
Moonlight (vampire P.I. television show)
Twilight (Yeah, the main character is practically a Sue to begin with, but the fandom still deserves protection.)
Dracula

The main problem? We already have Mini-Bats, in the Batman fandom. So, any ideas? I thought about maybe Mini-Renfields for Dracula, but I don't have a clue for the other ones.

... I adore Longitude. I'm sure I've seen a similar book by the same author around, so I'll have to track that down and buy it...

As for titles... let's see.

Worlds Without Number(/End): Fanfiction For Beginners

Or the reverse thereof. Or "An Insider's Guide To Fanfiction" as the subtitle. Or... yeah, the problem is there's so many similar options.

hS

I didn't know if there was, but I've checked, and there is! Yay!

List of Mini Types

For the record, there isn't yet a mini for 40k. The privilege of choosing (sorry, "discovering") the form of a mini usually goes to the person who first encounters one. Note that they are identical within a fandom, and it's best to check with the Board rather than being unilateral about anything.

hS

It's more 12-13 unless you skip a grade, since schools tend to have a cut off day.

For example, at my esteemed Fanfiction University, we currently have mini-kiji. Any name misspelled in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles forms a mini-kiji. However, those aren't up for adoption yet (yes, you need to adopt them).

Other types of minis include... Hm... Mini-aragogs for HP, if I remember correctly, mini-hellhounds for Good Omens and... I'll be honest here, I don't pay much attention to the other minis. But there's lots of different types. I don't think we've decided on a WH40k mini yet but I could be wrong.

I'm considering starting a non-mission piece to introduce my two Agents, before I gird myself to ask permission for a fully fledged mission, and I have a question regarding mini's-so far, most if not all mini's I've seen are mini-balrogs formed from the wraiths of misspelled LotR characters/places. If an egregiously bad fanfic in a non-LotR setting involves a consistently misspelled character/place name, would it create a mini, and if so, would it yield a mini-balrog, or something more appropriate to the setting?

(Should anyone wish details, it's a WH40k Gaunt's Ghosts badfic pulled from a pit of blasphemy that will not be named, and the error in question is one Larckin, when it should be Larkin)

... and only having some memories of you asking for input, plus given the demands you have for things that should be in the title, doesn't make it easy to help.

* An Insider's Guide to Fanfiction

It's boring and factual. Alternatively "the world of" could still be plunked in.

* Fanfiction in X chapters/stories/steps: An Insider's Guide to What Can and Can't be Done.

Or variations thereof.

Sorry, not much of use.

... Which, as I've been forced to explain several times already, isn't actually an "essay", but that's the only phrase under eight syllables that explains it. Not argumentative - informative. Not highly formal - comfortably polite.

I'm really, really sorry to be using you guys for this project yet again, but I'm tired, and stuck, and... I love you people. *looks pathetic*

So, if you'd like to try...

It's due tomorrow. Everything's done - the prose is written, the appendix arranged, the citations recorded, the bibliography (mostly) complete - but I still don't have a decent TITLE. Ideas I've had so far are a bit dull:

* Fanfiction: An Insider's Guide

* Fans, Fiction, and Fact: An Insider's Guide to the World of Fanfiction

* The World of Fanfiction: An Insider's Guide

See how it gets a wee bit repetative? They're all useable, but they're really not good.

So please; help me.

Some necessaries:

- "Fanfiction" must be THE prominent word. Duh. Preferably the first word, too.

- This paper is arranged to guide complete outsiders into the concept of fanfic and walk them through its conventions and problems, so "guide" would be a useful word - or something like it.
- I've made no secret of the fact that I'm part of this world, so "insider's guide" type things would be appropriate.

- This is mainly about the stories, not the writers, but I like to say "the WORLD OF" fanfiction, or something all-encompassing like that.

- it doesn't have to have a subtitle

- it can be two words if you think that's enough; preferably not more than eight. Simple is effective

- it doesn't have to be flashy or catchy, but that would be nice

- clever puns are great so long as they're understandable to an oblivious outsider (think academics - english professors)

- alliteration (and other such devices) is/are welcome so long as it's not over-done


Examples from my teacher (from existing books and popular styles for this sort of writing) are:

~ The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness, and the Oxford English Dictionary - yes, that's a real book. Apparently it's okay. Title makes it sound even better, though *hint*

~ Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the World's Greatest Scientific Problem - another a real book, which I have read. Quite good.

~ Nathaniel's Nutmeg - also a real book.

~ Tolkien's Nightmare: The Fans Who Changed The Story - a not-useable title I made up in class as part of a work-up-to-the-final project assignment.

Apparently "So-and-So's Mundane Item" is a fairly common style, as is "The Blank Which Changed the Blank". Both of which are irrelevant in this context, and just goes to show that I'm up too late.

... Yeah. As you can tell by my babbling, I have NO idea what to do. I'm really, really tired and about to fall into bed. I need a good title tomorrow.

ANY and ALL ideas are welcome. Here's some brain-fuel: *hands out chocolate in advance*

*HUGS* I swear I'll do you all some sort of favour in return.

1) And there's nothing wrong with that; it's just something you need to sort out in your own mind (even if you never tell anyone about it in detail).

2) And that's fine. Given that there's at least a few Agent pairs consisting of an author and a character she's made, we can't say non-canon'd Agents aren't allowed, can we?

3) Well... my point here is that people usually (poss. read: exclusively?) start by writing one series of missions. Those of us who have several lines of Agents -- myself, I think Artemis did, Laburnum, a few others -- all started with one team and then introduced others. Given the general drop-off rate when it comes to missions (very few PPC authors have gotten past three stories posted), starting off with Agents who don't work together is a bit, well, dubious.

Not to say they can't be from different Departments and still work together. Gunny and Wayne started out separate, just off the top of my head.

Anyway. Waiting until you figure out how to handle this before granting permission.

hS

... but the god and not-the-god were both Kit, not Kip.

hS

Well, my cursive back then was quite loopy...

It still shows a lack of brain cells. Honestly. If I was named "Jennipen" I would probably tell my teachers to call me something else.

And seventh grade is around...11-13 years old.