How To Make a Fan Newspaper

The old forum that I worked on had a fan Newspaper, he is a detailed guide on how to make one:

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How
I recently quit making my paper “PowerPenguin News” and I saw there were
some penguins out there wanting to make fan papers to! So I thought I
might give you my tips of what I learned when making a paper for almost
a year. Also for penguins who already have started making a paper these
tips could be handy if you want to improve you paper.

But yellow, why make a paper?

Well
it is fun to do a project when you have free time on your hands, trust
me, you’ll have so much fun making a paper! Also if you are one of
those penguins who wants to be a FP than this is a job for you! Just
look at joeypeng he if covered in fame just like I used to be in the
old days…anyway let’s get back to it. Try reading this guide and make a
fan paper of your own; what do you have to lose if you do not like
making papers after issue one just quit there and then, you’ll have so
much fun this is what it is all about

Guide on how to make a fan paper! Version 1.1


1. Before you start making your paper.

You need to try and think what you would like to write about like what
theme you want your paper to have, e.g. rumors, gossip, updates in Club
Penguin, ect: though please note it has been proven that people want to
read about stuff which has not happened on club penguin because they
can just read that in The Penguin Times, they want some gossip also
make sure it is humorous and light hearted.

Then
you want to think about if you have lots of time or not that much time
in real life, so than if you do have lots of time you can do a weekly
paper and if you don’t a monthly paper or even a yearly paper! And if
you have not that much time but you really want to do a weekly paper
make a group getting people to help you and get the load of your hands.

Think
about a name for you paper. Ones which are catchy or make sense to the
theme of paper you are doing, make it original like The Truth don’t try
and make ones like” The Tooth” or “The lie” no one likes a copier.

2. Thinking about issue one.[/U][/B]
Now
you’ve got the theme and the name you need to think what else you want
in it, e.g. jokes, riddles, poems maybe even an agony aunt.
Before
even starting the template, make a “spider diagram” on a piece of paper
of what is going to be in issue one, this always helped me and I think
it will work for you.
Think about
where you want all the stuff in your paper, if your paper theme is a
updates of CP than the newest updates you want to be at the very front
and the Jokes and other fun stuff you want close to the back

3.Advertisements
Now
if you want advertisements in your papers make a thread asking for
people to post there ads and tell them that they will be copied and
pasted into your paper. This is good idea because it means the person
who gave you the ad will want to see your paper to see there ad.

4. Templates.
Now this is a very important bit because if you have a messy template like this:




Then your paper will look un-neat and trashy you want a template like this:




So to help you out I will give you the templates I used this is of the front cover AND the pages!

Here they are:
FRONT-PAGE CLICK ME!
PAGES CLICK ME!


5. Starting on your paper
Now
when you want to start on your paper start from the front page and work
your way to the back page DON’T start from the back and work your way
to the front because it then gets messed up.

So I would
recommend using MS Paint or the equivalent to it on Macs due to how
easy it is to use, using something like GIMP or Photo Shop will not
work well because there are too many things there. If you want to your
paper like The Truth how they have a pictures fading underneath the
text than use MS PowerPoint. You might think this would never work
because MSPP is not for edits, but it does work for angling the text to
make it like The Penguin Times and the fading, but I wont go into to
much detail if you want to find more about this than ask Daveyp who is
the template designer for The Truth his email is:
daveyp@penguinposters.net

6. Lay out
Make
sure you have a good logo, if you need help for this go into an sig or
avvy shop and ask if they can make you a logo saying “(what ever you
name of paper is)” with the type of style and any other information.
Put the logo at the very top of the page, and then put the number of
the issue with the date/month/year! Below it. Below that maybe put a
line and under that line is where you start your paper. Here is a
picture of a layout you could copy for your paper:
CLICK-ME!
7. Pictures

How make sure you have good pictures, you can copy pictures from The
Penguin Times, or CP’s website they have a lot of cool pictures there.
Make sure they are neat, when cropping the picture make sure you cut of
any bits, try and make the background of the picture the same as the
color (colour) of the paper background.

8.Text

Now for the text for the paper only use one font. This is because if
you have loads of different fonts, than it will look messy, also try to
keep the color (colour) the same on some articles I would say you
should use black but if you want a more funky cheerful looking paper go
with different colours (colors). If you’re using two colors (colours)
for one article make sure they go together, if they don’t the paper
will look tacky.
I would recommend size 20 for heading of articles and size 12 for the main text
Also the font “Times New Roman” or “Arial Narrow” work well for it.


9.Writing
Make sure your writing if perfect, so try not to get any little type-o’s or spelling mistakes.
If
you have a problem with spelling or your just not good at it use MS
word, if you make a mistake it will show you it with a red line under
it. then just copy and paste it into the paper.

10.Once your finished your issue

Put
a link to it in your sig so people will know about it, and when your
done just sit back keep refreshing your page and watch the comments
come in! Please note if you get bad comments, don’t be offended use
these to make your next issue even better!

So
that’s all my little tips! I still have a few more to share though, but
all in good time! I hope I in flounced you to make a paper of your own,
and remember making papers is all for fun and nothing but fun!

If you are from Wwe Adam's Forum you may notice this same post there. But the truth is they stole it from the forum I was on a mod from.

lol u said hoe to

awesome im going to make my own paper

twee12345 wrote:

lol u said hoe to

Thats a mistake, I just fixed that.

i did my its kind of bad

This is so cool. =D
I might try it soon!

Ok I did my and look at the front cover: