The Lunaverse

The green puzzle piece to the left represents an infobox: a small table containing the most important information about the fanfic you're writing about. Hover over the symbol, then click on "edit" in the form that pops open, and fill in the fields. Only the fields relevant to the story in question should be filled (e.g. no "part of" if the story is not part of a specific series). You can add an image, but please make sure that the image is either explicitly inspired by the story in question, or has previously been used as a cover image on Equestria Daily, FIMFiction, or another fanfic repository where it has been approved by the author.

This is where the lead section goes. It should only contain the fanfic's title, author, general length (short story, novella, novel), and a very short summary of what the story is about (no more than two or three sentences). Other important information, like the fic's approximate word count and publication date, should be left to the infobox.

Style
This section is optional. Examples for stylistic observations include the story's point of view, narrative voice, tense, structure, and typographical peculiarities.

Summary
This section is mandatory. It must contain a summary of the primary events that happen over the course of the story. It should be detailed enough to give a reader with no prior knowledge of the story an idea of what happens in it, without getting bogged down by too many details that would overwhelm a reader. 8-15% of the overall length of the original for short stories and 2-5% for novel-length stories is a good guide. Pages about longer works don't have to start out with a complete summary of that length, but should end up there eventually. For completed fics, please summarize at least the premise, major developments, and the ending of the story if you can't fill in the details until later. It is not necessary to write one paragraph (or more) per chapter; sometimes a single sentence is sufficient to summarize all the important events that happen in a chapter.

Note that the summary should be written in the historic present tense; for instance: "While Pony X is investigating the sounds coming from the basement, a butterfly lands on the windowsill". The plot should be described from the perspective of a reader, not the perspective of the characters.

For unfinished works, the summary should also only reflect chapters that have already been published. Please avoid "book blurb"-like phrases like rhetorical questions whose only purpose is to get readers interested in the story. Please use your own words as much as possible and do not copy the story description from another website.

Characters
If the story features original characters who do not appear in the show, they can be written about here. Any description of such a character should be brief, to-the-point, and focus on how the character is relevant to the story's plot. This also applies to characters from the show whose personalities are very different from what a reader might expect.

This section should not contain just a list of characters who feature in the story and nothing else. Instead, it ought to complement the previous section: where the summary contains a broad-strokes overview over the story's plot, the character section should track the development arcs of individual characters. Stories with few characters or little to no character development (like many humor stories) generally don't need a separate "Character" section.

Reception
Fanfics that are very popular often garner derivative works of their own, like sequels, other stories using the same characters, fan art, readings, music, translations. Specific examples can be listed and linked to here.

This section can also be used to quantify just how popular a story is by other means, including the average star rating a story might have on a fanfic repository, or the number of comments it has amassed. Please provide a link or reference if you make such a numerical claim, and always say which day your data is from when citing these statistics.