[Blog] Beyblade Fanfics Club/Discussions/Random Thoughts

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-Grammar (it's minor sometimes, so I overlook it for the most part.)

-Characterization, if characters are gonna be one-sided, a change in their personality or their mentality throughout the story will be always vital because if you don't develop them, they're gonna be stale and boring. Multi-dimensional characters are very much welcomed as well, but if they're way too unique they'll be well, messed up, this could work with trickster characters though. The same applies to villains too, if you intend to make a twist villain, the build-up and reveal need to be timed (maybe somewhat off the mid-section of the story to give them more time to build up), and if villains have BS motives or have the 'evil just because' personality they're gonna be caca, unless the 'evil just because' personality is executed perfectly, kinda like with Phi then you can make them good.

-Dialogue, repeated words are going to be boring (of course), so an increased vocabulary would be good. Dialogue can also reflect a character's personality, they can speak with a Kansai or a New Jersey accent, be fluent, maybe add in some bits of a foreign language to at least say that they're from another country, and so on.

-Battle choreography, how flexible and unique attacks are as well as movements, not just in special attacks but also in standard attacks, whether it be a combo to make an opponent vulnerable, a feint, or brake-checking your opponent. The emphasis on basic attacks is important, I always see fic writers do this in a battle; barrage each other with a flurry of attacks before one of them sends their special "insert name" Slash move, knocking back the opponent backward then back to barraging each other once again.

-Environment and atmosphere, how the writers utilize the environment of just sticking to one stadium or one condition. For example, you could put in the rain on a battle outdoors and make it so that it'll drastically change the performance of Beys, or there's a crack in the stadium that'll lead to one event or a series of events. Or maybe setting up the mood of a certain event.

-Pacing and build-up, a good balance of pacing is what I also wanna see in stories, if it's way too long then it'll be too boring unless you somehow make it interesting, and if it's way too short people are gonna look for more at the end of the story and will be eventually disappointed with how short it is. As for build-up, I think this is obvious; if your build-up to the main story is way too fast, you're gonna leave a lot of ideas behind and forget about characterization, and just like earlier, if you take too long you're going to run out of ideas, especially if you put in filler stuff that happens to be better than the final battle.

-Plot progression, this also coincides with build-up so I'll just leave this here.

-Conflict, conflicts that start because of a stupid thing like strategies or attack power is what I usually hate unless what they're doing is high-stakes. It also has to have an impact on the characters, whether it be emotionally or in their mentality.