You want an honest opinion, so here is mine: I’ve read some of your posts, and you’re an interesting person. You clearly know a lot about The Land Before Time series. Making a great fan fiction, however, is not black and white. Often times, some people will like it, and others will not. Being interesting in general doesn’t always mean someone can write an interesting story, and the same goes with knowledge of them. I am an English major at a university. I just completed my first year and made the dean’s list of excellence, and nearly every class I’ve had so far was heavily about writing. So you’d think I could really interest people, right? The fact of the matter is, my work is very boring. Very few people will say anything about stories I write. A thirteen-year-old member here, someone not even in high school, wrote a LBT fan fiction, and she has more followers than anything I’ve ever written. So even with tons of training in creative writing, structure, and grammar, for the most part, I seem to bore the forum to a large degree with my stories. And there is nothing wrong with that in the sense that people don’t choose what they like. Pleasure is involuntary. So you may create a wonderful story that many people love. However, things like knowledge and creativity can’t really be dependable factors in whether or not a story will be appealing.
If you get a fan fiction going, though, I can give one piece of advice. A lot of readers get held up with grammar errors. No one is perfect, of course, but numerous issues in a short time can take away from the flow. Let me use your post here for an example.
I've been thinking about this for so long, and I decided to make a topic if i should make a LBT fanfic.
For one thing, “I” is always capitalized. For another, your amount of words is slightly confusing. A better way of writing that is:
I've been thinking about this for so long, and I decided to make a topic to see if people think I should make a LBT fanfic.
Do you see how that sounds better?
The questions are, am I ready for it? do I have enough knowledge to make one? will I make a great fanfic? will it be appealing to the readers? will I be able to finish one?
The opening introduces a list and is a complete sentence, so it should end with a colon, not a comma. Also, each question should be capitalized. It would look like:
The questions are: Am I ready for it? Do I have enough knowledge to make one? Will I make a great fanfic? Will it be appealing to the readers? Will I be able to finish one?
If I will make one LBT fanfic, i'll make a LittlefootxAli fanfic since i'm a LittlefootxAli fan.
The “I’ll” should be capitalized as well as the “I’m.” Secondly, using “fanfic” twice so close sounds redundant. I would suggest making the second usage a “one,” but it would still be redundant because you said “one” earlier as well. So my final thought would actually be to change some things around:
If I will make one LBT fanfic, I'll make it about LittlefootxAli since I'm a LittlefootxAli fan.
In the end, I do believe that you can make a good LBT story. Just be realist and don’t make an expectation of grandeur from the public which I fell victim of doing so that you won’t be disappointed in case it isnët as good as you thought. Pay very close attention to your grammar, try to explore new areas of the LBT, and most importantly, have fun. That’s all I can say.
