User blog:Berserkchart486/Naruto Fanon's Official Ninja Academy

Hello all,

I'm Berserkchart486, perhaps one of the greatest people you will ever meet. Seriously, I'm awesome. Naturally, I'm kidding, but I do have something serious to address or rather introduce. Now, I'm here to introduce the idea of an official Naruto Fanon Ninja Academy, where we take users (those who are relatively new) and show them the ropes. Essentially, my goal is to ultimately ensure that your writing potential is truly utilized and that your ideas become creative and expressed in the manner that you want. In short, I'm here to teach whoever joins on how to make their very own character and how to do that here at narutofanon and how to especially fit them into the sites own Fanon Canon.

Now, to warn you beforehand, I will personally be running this Academy/Workshop with the help of many others, one user being Para who has offered up her time and experience to learn and help. With this, do not feel as though you don't need to speak your mind. I'm relatively young myself, I'm sixteen and I'm not the smartest guy, so I'm wrong on tons of stuff, but when I'm wrong I acknowledge that fact and I move on. Regardless, I have had mild success here with following characters such as Yami Nara, Sannoto Senju, Arahitogami and I have a few incomplete Mamoru Hoshikage, Shichirou Chiyo, etc. However, what I have achieved is that I understand my characters and I enjoy them, which is the goal, to ensure that you create something you truly enjoy. Now, since the introduction has been placed, let's move on to the curriculum of the Academy.

Writer's at Work
Odd choice of name, well I think so too, but I like it. Essentially, this is the workshop that I referenced earlier where anyone can come and get some assistance on an idea involving a character, application, organization, etc. Whatever it may be, this is one of the branches of the Academy. Now, here we will not hold your hand during these processes, because from what I've learned, hand holding causes your character to stray away from what YOU want it to be and rather becomes something that someone else created. I don't want to be the source of that and neither does anyone else, so when requesting this, I beg that you have some idea of what you want to do rather than coming and expecting us to give you ideas, because that will not happen. So, how is this organized? Simple, everyone gets a thirty minute block where they can talk to me or any other user on their idea. This block can be found here. How do you sign up? You leave a comment saying which block you want and that's it, I fill it in at it's all good!

Academic Division
This is the main core of the entire Academy, which is to make new user's transition onto the website as easy as possible. But with this portion of the Academy, I request that you have one thing "The willingness to listen, learn and accept feedback". No offense to anyone here, but this is pretty much a requirement to be able to get the best out of this. No one here will intentionally be cruel or mean or try to put you down, but no one here will hold your hand either. If the idea isn't necessarily good, for example ;I want to make a Madara type shinobi with the rinnegan, hashirama face, plot no jutsu, etc. We just aren't going to encourage that type of idea here. The fanon is trying to increase the quality of its articles and I believe it all starts with the beginning which is why this is gonna be something rigorous.

Curriculum
Due to the fanon canon deal, the Academy has two aspects that it is equally divided into. One is to help the development of your characters and unleashing your writing potential. The second is educating you on the world of the canon fanon, for if you are new, the canon fanon may not come naturally as it has been running for a while, thus you aren't caught up naturally. This is okay, no one is going to fault you for it, because regular canon does not apply here. This is an entirely different storyline and we don't expect you to know about it. If you do, then you're one hell of a genius.

Now, this Academy will be run in blocks, similar to the Writer's at Work, however these will not be ones you sign up for, but will rather be those assigned at specific times a day that you may or may not attend. They're will be multiple blocks, so don't worry about not being able to any, because I assure you that you will be able to. As of right now, I will run all of them, thus every single one of you will receive the same advice, the same curriculum, etc. With that, here's what I have broken the first aspect of the Academy down into.

Writing SKills: This essentially speaks for itself. Some users, though most, already have a basic grasp of english.