The next step on writing a good story/fanfiction is writing a timeline for the character. Ask yourself about major events in your character’s life. Remember, the character has to be born, go through certain life, and go through one or more disturbing events as well as climatic events in their life. The timeline ends when the story ends or when the character’s role in the story is gone.
Here's an example of a timeline written by Zoe (not me):
1760 Fiore was born, a perfect fairy child but as she slowly aged a white blemish appeared on her dark purple skin, which displeased her mother greatly.
1761 Fiore's mother who is an aesthetic being is repelled by Fiore and replaces her by a healthy and unbaptised baby from the human town near the edge of the forest.
1765 By the time Fiore is five; her human caretakers grow scared of her different physical beauty and countenance. She has grown wings. They lead her deep into the forest convincing them that they are returning her to her birthplace. Alone, Fiore can hardly provide for herself.
1766 A year passes and Fiore meets up with a band of faeries, other changelings like herself that have been cast off as ugly beings. Fiore soon learns that they are in fact ugly outside as well as inside; they murder, kidnap and defile everything around them. For the next ten years, they laugh and tease Fiore (an almost perfect being other than a blemish on her skin) but never harm her bound to the rules of the outcasts. Fiore spends her time as far as she is allowed from the main camp as an outcast within outcasts. She explores the forests and scavenges for anything that sparkles as well as discusses with flowers and nature.
1776 Two travelers, unaware of the dangers, wander into the path of the forest. Fiore with her tricky fae magic tries to lead them out of the forest by confusing them in order to save their lives. Unfortunately, her fellow changelings sniff the travelers out and begin their fairy raid to catch them and torture them. Fiore, her heart pure and jovial, will go through a series of events in order to save the travelers from her ugly family and in the process will be cast out and forced to join the travelers as they hurry out of the forest.
I suggest that you write a timeline for all of your major characters and even some of the secondary characters.
Information from: http://bubblesinmyhead.blogspot.com/2006/05/8-tips-tricks-to-play-frankenstein.html
Disclaimer: I did not write the original article.
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Tips on Writing a Story/Fanfiction Pt. 2 Timelines.
Posted at 8:59 PM EST on Sunday, September 23, 2007
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