Asia-chans Do's and Don'ts of
 Sailor Moon Crossover fanfiction
 (and sometimes fanfiction in general)

Do- Be orrigional! No one likes
 to read the same story under 
seventeen different titles! 

Don't- Destroy the author's character's
 in the process.
THIS IS A BIG NO NO!

Do- Keep the characters in, uh, character!

Don't- MUTILATE THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS!
 (have I said this befor?)

Do- Let yourself be inspired by other works

Don't- Copy (cheaters!)

Do- Check your gramar and spelling 
befor posting anything for keeps

Don't- rely completely on a computer 
spell checker to fix your errors for
 you (thery don't allways work...()()

Do- give your characters some beleivable 
flaws.

Don't- make your characers perfect. 
Perfect is boring, and it makes it 
harder to create a good plot.

Do- make a well rounded plot, including
 elements from more than one genre 
(a horror story doesn't have to be 
just blood and gore, it can have 
humurous parts as well. A Romance doesn't
 have to be all mushing a sucking face,
 make your character's embarrassed, goofy,
 childish, or cocky if you want. 
Romance in real life isn't all just kiss
 and make up. This will help to eleviate
 the “soap opera” feel of a romance)

Don’t- try to shove in so much of each 
genre that your story doesn’t make sense anymore.

Do- have interesting situations and
 character interactions.

Don’t- try to pass off a bunch of 
cute or steamy or action packed scenes
 as a story. Remember, a story has a 
PLOT! Give your characters something 
to strive for. A semi-constant in all
 chapters that works with the smaller struggles.

Do- have fun with what you write!
 (if you don’t like what you’re 
writing, you’ll try less to make it
 interesting, and pretty soon, your
 readers won’t like it either)

Don’t- let readers/reviewers dictate
 what will happen in your story. 
This is probably the NUMBER 2 BIG NO NO!
 reviewers tend to suggest things 
they liked from another story. 
It’s not allways a bad thing but let
 me give you a small example. For 
any of you that read Sailor Moon/Gundam
 Wing fanfiction, this will probably
 pop up in around 80% of your reviews:
    “That was good so far. Are you going
 to put Heero and Usagi/Serena together?
 You should! Are you going to kill 
Mamoru or Relena? You should! 
Do the senshi turn evil? They should! 
Write more soon, ja!” Yeah, I get this
 a lot. I know it’s hard sometimes, 
but cover your ears and write what you
 want! It may bruise a few spaztic egos,
 but it’ll be better for your readers 
anyway. :D (this was a long, “Don’t” ne?)

Do- write something and post it even 
if it doesn’t go with the latest faddish
 mindset. Who cares if at the moment 
everyone’s into gore? Upload your comedy
 post-haste! If you like it, someone else
 might too.

Don’t- be offended by unpleasent criticism.
 Learn from it. Just because someone 
doesn’t like what you’ve written and 
says so TASTEFULLY, it doesn’t meen 
that they’re flaming. A flame is different
 than constuctive criticism.
                  Well, that’s all.
 I hope I’ve given some good advice. See ya!
       Asia-chan