And as is traditional, we close with responses.
You have received a private message from:
Name: AshXMay4ever
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1176994/
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Subject: re: Your review to Pokemon Halloween Special!
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/7498453/
Um….really?! I did spell Growlith right and I have been a writer for a long
time. WHAT IS WITH YOU PEOPLE ON THIS SITE ANYMORE? YOU DON’T BOTHER TO ENJOY
IT, YOU JUST SPEND AN HOUR TYPING UP LITTLE MISKATES! KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY!
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Name: DarkPaladin000
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1681030/
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Subject: Review
Thanks for your review for my fanfic. I’m sure that it’ll help me improve any
future things that I have planned.
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Name: Nightlingbolt
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/721662/
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Subject: Thanks for the review!
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/7511037/
Well, tell me: have you ever played Black or White? Because when you have a
random encounter, the game text usually says “A wild Patrat appeared!” rather
than “A wild patrat appeared!” I realize that may not be the most
grammatically correct way of putting it, but you know what? That’s how things
are written in the games, so I use Trainer instead of trainer because it’s
easier for me in some mixed-up way. Besides which, I didn’t make references to
any Pokemon in a generic sort of way, with the possible exception of the
Plasma member’s Krookodile, so I don’t lose any sleep over it.
Looking back, Snivy’s insults are a tad extreme, but at the time, I wanted to
establish her feelings for Oshawott without her actually saying she had them.
I could change it if it really bothers people, but I don’t see anything wrong
with it as is.
I will freely admit that I suck at ensemble casts. I didn’t really do much to
characterize, say, Swadloon or Roggenrola, but I like to think I gave some of
them a sort of characteristic, such as Palpitoad being a cocky jerk.
But to your credit, this review really kicked my ass. I don’t really get that
with my Fairy Tail work, so props to you.
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Name: AshandMistyLove
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2267971/
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Subject: re: Your review to Toil N’ Trouble!
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/7494022/
Dear Farla,
Thank you very much for your review first of all, it’s always nice to recieve
them!
Secondly, about what your review said.
I understand the second paragraph you wrote, (sort of) and I agree that maybe
I need to improve my grammar and punctuation, but I am in school still, I am
going to make mistakes all of the time. And I reckon there are quite a few
people’s work who mine might beat in the punctual issues area, etc etc. There
are many people whose grammar is worse off than mine.
The part about said, I know maybe I shouldn’t use the same words such as
hollered or yelled, maybe I can change it in the future?
The first paragraph, I didn’t know that I wasn’t allowed to capitalise
POKe’MON names. But surely POKe’MON are nouns because they are all called by
their names or the fact that they belong to the PKMN company should allow me
to give them capital letters. Also, it just seems and feels a little more
professional that way.
Thanks also for clearing up the ‘it’s’ and ‘its’ for me. I am bound to make
mistakes as is every good writer, and it is just about learning these things
as you go I guess.
However, I do not feel the first chapter was ‘filler’ in any shape or form, it
helps build the story up if I begin it at Ash’s House. I know the reader
doesn’t have to know everything about before the story started but I felt it
necessary to explain why Misty was travelling with the group again. I am sorry
if you do not like it but that is my way of writing.
Also, the first chapter was enjoyable to write, and it is, in a context, “The
calm before the storm.” The storm being the spooky occurences later on…
I hope you continue to read on, but if you decide not to, that is entirely
your own choice.
I just want to say that writing fanfiction is a hobby of mine which I do for
fun, so what if there are a few errors? A good story should draw away those
facts with its contents surely? Anyway, is there anything so far you have
LIKED about my story? Because it would be great, since you have let me in on
what grammatical errors I have made, if you could tell me what you did like so
I can incorporate it into my next piece of writing.
Thanks again for taking time to read and review! I hope you enjoy the rest of
the story!
Yours sincerely,
-AAML:)
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And from Homestuck.
Honesty, I would thank you for your critique on my grammar skills (i know they need some work), but seriously if you’re going to give helpful critique it’s usually not a great idea to start bashing on people’s ideas right form the getgo.
The way to write an actually helpful critique is to POLITELY point out mistakes. Really I don’t care if you think John couldn’t do what I wrote him doing, hell I don’t think he could do what I wrote him doing. I wrote it because I wanted it written and if you don’t like it then going around posting comments that have no clear purpose but to make people upset is no way to make yourself friends on the internet. Your bravado does not impress me.
HAHAHAHAHA
Homestuck was worried that you wouldn’t “make yourself friends on the internet?” Oh God . . . why would you want to?
Because internet friends are awesome? Not the kind you have to constantly sweet talk and self-censor around, though.
(Writing Lucki was largely about making people upset, and it made her at least one “friend on the internet”.)
But obviously friends like that suck in comparison to someone who doesn’t like how I normally talk and wants me to knock it off. Nothing can soothe my loss, nothing.
I enjoy your picking-apart of various series immensely. But this is really uncomfortable and makes it look like you’re bashing FF.net fanfiction writers (read: inexperienced, new writers, mostly teenage girls) by leaving them unnecessarily harsh and exclusively negative, scathing reviews and then publicly dissect and mock their replies to it. No, I don’t think anyone has a way they ‘normally talk’. You wouldn’t talk to your insurance company this way, you wouldn’t talk to your grandparents this way. Everyone adjusts their tone depending on who they’re talking to, and it takes a certain degree of familiarity to be able to speak with someone as frankly as you do without it being outright rude. Leaving a review on an internet stranger’s story, ostensibly to “help” them, does not fulfill that degree of familiarity. If you cared about helping them improve their writing skills, you’d try to do it in a way that doesn’t tear into their confidence quite that much (funny how many of these stories have been taken down, when you try the links now) and doesn’t make it sound like you didn’t find a single thing to actually LIKE about the story (even though you took the time to finish it). And if you don’t care about helping them improve their skills and are just tearing into them because you can, and then showcasing their responses publicly as something to laugh and joke over with your followers, that’s truly disgusting. And you determine their ‘reasonableness’ by how much they sound like they’ve taken your criticisms to heart? Unbelievably arrogant. You’re a reviewer, but you’re still just one opinion. Yours is not the final word on what their story should be like.
(funny how many of these stories have been taken down, when you try the links now)
…all one of them? On a site where people regularly delete their fics, or have them deleted by whoever’s running it? Truly, I am a monster.
And you determine their ‘reasonableness’ by how much they sound like they’ve taken your criticisms to heart? Unbelievably arrogant.
Yeah, deciding that’s what I do because it better fits you feeling superior is definitely not the arrogant thing here. You sure got me good!