Quick roundup

[farla]

Someone on Fictionpress wanted to know if I was going to continue the story I did about the guy using dreams to drive people crazy, and if not, if they could continue it. It makes me wonder if the original fiction rules about getting ideas from other writers are way stricter than in the fanfiction community.

No one has really been bitching much. I got one kind-of bitchy reply, complete with "it's my character so you can't tell me they wouldn't act like that", "but it's totally possible a wild pokemon might act exactly like a whiny American teen", and "just because there's no reason for it doesn't mean it's impossible", but then they apologized for it.

Right now the worst the reviews get are the annoying ones where they obviously didn't understand a thing I said. Like Wow...thanks for paying so much attention to my story and giving such a
meaningful review. Thanks. About the boy being a thief; he became a thief
because his father died. It changed him because of the strong bond they had.
There were also consequences for his thefts. If you read it, it's in chapter
one when he robbing a store and a police officer came. Had he got caught, he
would've gotten thrown in jail. And him stealing pokemon in broad daylight
isn't any different from a house getting robbed in broad daylight.

I think the blanketing thing really does work. Also, I've already passed last month's profile hits. (And am starting to get occasional weird results on the poll - why do people really want Emerald Perspectives updated?)

I did get one email threatening to flame all my stories, but I guess then they scrolled past my bio and realized that'd take a while, so they just gave up. And I got invited to The Lost Simirillion Trilogy, whatever that means. It's apparently that guy Silawen reviewed's website.

Comments

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

...they spelled Simarillion wrong.

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that the Simarillion is just an account of the circumstances surrounding the loss of the Simarils... to write a story about someone losing a book seems a tad odd. Idiot.

[purple-drake.livejournal.com]

It's actually 'Silmarillion/Silmaril', with another 'l'.

Ironically, in the title of their story about it, it's spelled correctly, but everywhere else they've written it, it isn't. How does someone go from spelling it correctly to misspelling it so consistently, especially when the answer is right there in front of them? O.o

[actonthat.livejournal.com]

Wow, way to go, self. I read that book like two weeks ago, too.

[farla.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, that's because they got a review (http://www.fanfiction.net/r/4589405/) pointing out the error and fixed it on the FFN story, but haven't fixed all the other times they wrote it.

[charizamdc.livejournal.com]

Ugh.

That website...

[farla.livejournal.com]

That pretty much sums it up.

The invite was accidental, I think.

[teraunce.livejournal.com]

I just about invited everyone in my yahoo contacts list, & you were in it, don't ask me how. I admit, It has the wrong title, but since that is a secondary site despite being listed as the homepage, it isn't updated that much. I have the full first chapter posted at my deviantart account. As far as updating goes, it will be updated sooner or later.