We are in for a REALLY long part!!!

Intro
In this chapter, we will briefly go over the basic composition of your story!(something tells me this won't be very brief!) We will go over several things, but I'm almost positive that I will make separate chapters for each thing to allow me to go into further detail. We'll see!

The Basic Anatomy of a Story
Hello! When you finally decide that you are ready to start your story, it can be overwhelming! So much to do, and so little time! Plus, you want to get straight to counting your reads! What if I told you that while there is actually not that much to starting your fanfiction, if you skip even ONE, you might end up with hundreds less reads than you imagined? Okay, I'll start you off with a list of the sections that we will go over:

• Visual Attraction
• Intriguing Description
• Getting Down the Facts
• Beginning your Story
• Plot Make-up
• Spelling, Grammar, & Punctuation

Without further ado, I present the first topic: Visual Attraction!!!

Visual Attraction
Without appealing visuals, most won't bother stopping at your fanfiction. The first step is a cover. You must do this first, because if you have no cover, most people will keep scrolling, tossing your fanfiction into the "lazily-done" bin. You know the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover?" Well, we humans are petty and judgmental, so we can't help it! ;D

For covers, you have lots of options! You could try a super-edition cover, which has the classic cat headshot with a solid background, and the Warriors logo. You also could try a classic series cover; this is a circle or square frame with a cat headshot, topped off with a background that is usually of one of the settings. Even still, there are more options! Look at covers that appeal to you for inspiration! Making covers required a good eye for colors. You need to know what colors look good together, and what colors will show up well on your cover. Showing your title is very important. If they can't see your title, the cover hardly means anything.(If you are still trying to come up with a title, review my first part!) The cover combined with your title must be intriguing.

This all leads up to my next point: Knowing your limitations. You need to be aware of when something is not your forte. If you aren't the best at making covers, realize that, and try and get someone who is good at covers to do one for you! Like I said, humans are petty and judgmental, and we will surely judge you and your story if your cover sucks!

Once you have an appealing cover, you must move on to the other areas of "Visual Attraction." While not as exciting, spacing is very important. Spaces between paragraphs make your story look professional and neat. Alongside this, set up your Allegiances really well, keep it consistent, neat, etc. The harder you try to make your story's visuals appealing, the more reads you will get! (Don't take these the wrong way and have rainbow-tacky-land barf on your book! DO NOT overdo it!)

Intriguing Description
Creating a good, intriguing description is actually more important and more difficult than a good cover, or good spacing. The description of your story is what will draw readers in! When making a description, you need to already have a Plotline!(writing a story is not "write one chapter, make The rest up as you go!") You need a basic Plotline to build upon. Think of it like a spine. It is all one big thing that is already, well, built up. But, when you look closer, there are tons of vertebrae. The altogether spine is a basic plot to build on, and the vertebrae are the details of that basic plot.(This is a weird way to put it... Don't judge me!)

            Back on topic, you must think about what:
• Reflects the title
• Flows well
• DOES NOT reveal the entire plot
• Makes people want to know the rest of the story

            These are a few things to keep in mind when writing the summary. I would say that the most important is the third one. If you reveal the entire plot, there is no longer reason for anyone to read your story! They know what will happen!

            Lots of people say "end your summary with a question!" Now, sure, sometimes, that is good advice, but I'm going to give you better advice: DO NOT end with:
• "Will they/she/he make it?"
• "What will happen in ____?"

           You should never use the first one, mostly because it is cliché. Also, the fact of the matter is, unless you are thinking opposite, most of us can assume that the "good guys" will triumph. They will probably make it. Maybe I'm just being judgmental, but I think that makes a story sound just a bit childish... Probably just me.

About the second sentence... It is simple. "What will happen in ____?" WHY ARE YOU ASKING US? This statement is unprofessional to say the least. It does not make people want to read your story!

            To write your summary, just introduce your basic plot, the main conflict, name of character, maybe the setting, but NOTHING MORE!

Getting Down the Facts
Welcome to the boring part about writing your story! RESEARCH!!When you are writing your Fanfiction, it is important that everything is accurate! For example, I constantly see people writing about Medicine Cats retiring to the Elders' Den, which cannot happen! Medicine Cats vow to serve their clan through healing for as long as they live! If you aren't sure of something, ask a friend, look it up on the Internet, or pull out a book!

            I see things that are inaccurate in fanfictions TOO OFTEN! I usually can't help but try and correct the author, and your readers might be the same way! Due to this, and the fact that you want to have a great Fanfiction, it is important that you make sure that everything that you do is accurate! For example, capitalization:
How it IS Capitalized:
• Blackstar
• ThunderClan
• Twoleg
• Clan
• kit

How it is NOT Capitalized:
• BlackStar(This one is a common mistake)
• blackstar
• blackStar
• Thunderclan(This one is the most common)
• thunderClan
• thunderclan
• twoleg
• TwoLeg
• clan
• Kit

Besides capitalization, there are also things like the Warrior Code, the Medicine Cat Code, and just things like how the clan works! You need to make sure you know the correct facts about these things to write a story!

Beginning Your Story
            This part is VERY important, so pay attention, young apprentices! When beginning your story, what is your first instinct? (Actually, I want you to tell me! It will help me, so I can help you!) for most people, the first instinct is to introduce your characters, conflict, clan, etc. but you must consider that you are reading this because you are writing a Warrior Cat fanfiction! What I mean, is that you have to consider how Warrior Cat books start, which is usually with a prologue.

            Excluding a few, most of the prologues are written in a different fashion than the rest of the story. They don't say the names of cats until the other characters inform us on the names. This is commonly known as Third Person Limited. For example:

Three sleek cats stalked into the clearing. As they all sat, a black Tom stood and faced the others. "Did you find their camp?" The black Tom almost snarled.

"No, Blackstar, not yet." A trembling silver she-cat looked at Blackstar. This seemed to anger Blackstar as he lashed his tail and bushed out his fur. He raked his claws at the she-cat, blood spraying on the ground as his claws met her muzzle.

The third cat, a russet tom, lifted his paw as he straightened his posture. "If I may, Blackstar," he began. "Maybe Silvermuzzle isn't cut out for this kind of thing."

            Blackstar looked thoughtful for a moment, flicking his tail occasionally. "I suppose you think you are cut out for it, Thrushpelt?" Blackstar hissed.

            Thrushpelt seemed slightly taken back by Blackstar's comment. "Yes, Blackstar," he mewed, sounding more confident than he felt.

"Please, Blackstar! I'm more experienced! I won't fail again, I promise!" Silvermuzzle yowled in despair.

Blackstar growled, unsheathing his claws. "You've failed me one to many times, Silvermuzzle." A flash of claws shone in the light of the moon. Blood poured form Silvermuzzle's throat as she lifelessly dropped to the grass, her eyes dull.

Thrushpelt stared in horror at Blackstar, who sat calmly washing the blood off of his paw. The russet Tom began to back up, before bolting for the shelter of the forest. Blackstar got up, ignoring the lifeless she-cat on the ground as he stared at Thrushpelt's silhouette disappear through the trees. "Fine," he growled. "I'll do it myself."

Look at me, giving you bad examples and all! Anyway, note how the names of the characters weren't stated until we were informed about those names. Third Person Limited means that we don't know anything, until the characters know.

Besides the writing style, prologues should provide something that keeps us wondering. It could be an introduction to a prophecy, a mysterious meeting with cats who appear to be plotting, etc! Another good idea is making it the end result of your entire story! Then, your story is about how things ended up that way! (A good example of this is Stagflight's Loneliness by @LemonyFox ) But remember, the most important thing is to think outside the box! Keep it creative!

There is more to starting your story than a prologue! Make sure you have a plot planned out IN ADVANCE! But, when beginning your story, you need to introduce:
• Characters
• Personalities of characters
• Conflict
• How the clan works(if it is a fanclan, mostly)
• etc.

Even if you don't at the very beginning of your story, you need to introduce the conflict pretty early on, or your readers will become bored.

Plot Make-up
Look at the mountain in my collage. That is what this part is about. This part concern plot make-up. As you can see, the first part of your story is exposition, (introducing characters, and things like that) and then, it moves to rising action. This could be the beginning of your main conflict, or it could be a different conflict that is completely unrelated.

Once you have introduced your characters and plot, you need to remember that if you are making a full warriors book, then you need to have more than just one action bit to keep your readers interested long enough to reach the summit of your plot. Ah, yes, the summit! The summit is the ultimate high point of your plot! If your story is about the dark forest slowly rising, the summit is when they finally attack and there is a huge battle! The summit is just when the main conflict presents itself, and the problem or conflict of your story is solved.

            After the summit, the story ends, right? Wrong! After the highest point, you need to have falling action. Maybe some things happen, but they are small things. You also end with introducing how your character has changed and how things are after the conflict.

Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation
I'm not going to go into detail with this, but I'm going to mention some mistakes I see often!

Let's start with spelling! If you have a ton of misspelled words, your story is very unappealing!

Silver paw rosed from her nest and padedd out of her den. To day will be amazzing! She thout. Her menter was taking her batle traineng to day. When she started her traineng, she swipped a paw at her menter and pined him down. She yowlled in triumf. She was the best appendice! She wood be the best warrier for shure!

Well, that was painful. If you aren't sure how to spell something, you can look it up, so there isn't a good excuse for misspelling simple words! I definitely want to bring up two special words: Lose and loose. I often see people write "loose" when they mean "lose." It is a simple mistake that many people make, including someone who is LITERALLY, like, one of the best warrior Fanfiction writers on wattpad!(LightningStrikeTC ) I have a stupid tip to remember it! "Lose" lost, so it has only one "o." (Lol, that is so stupid!)
Also:
There- as in "Look over there!"
Their- as in "That is their prey."
They're- as in "They are."

Your- as in "Your prey."
You're- as in "You are."

On to grammar... Well, it is self explanatory. Read your sentences out loud, making sure that they make sense. Look up some tips and you won't fail!(most likely)

Lastly, punctuation! I won't go to far into detail, but make sure you don't have run-on sentences. Also, use commas where there would be a pause, but not a complete stop in your sentence. Also, let's talk about dialogue:

            "I like shrew," Thrushpelt said.

            "Well, I don't." Silvermuzzle turned her back.

            Notice how there was a comma after Thrushpelt's dialogue, but a period after Silvermuzzle's. Why, you ask? Well, notice how Thruspelt's name was followed by said, a verb which indicated that he spoke. Silvermuzzle's dialogue ended with a period because the verb following her comment wasn't relevant to her speaking. This is really basic, so ask if you have any more questions!

            This is really long... Anyway, I hope it helped! Also, I thought you guys could send me your books and then I could review them! I don't know, just an idea! Thanks guys, and read on!