Authors, Part 9

[farla]

Name: yoshifan900
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2167038/
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Subject: re: Your review to Umbreon and Raichu:The heart of saddness

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/5876407/

Don't get started with me. I'm new to this stuff, ok? I'm not the best so
watch what you say.

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Name: Sara Jaye
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/243105/
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Subject: re: Your review to Before They Were Heroes

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/5879002/

When maybe you should tell all the official sources like Bulbapedia and that
they're wrong, too.

[Uh, I think step one is accepting that if his dad died four years ago, while
on an extended trip no less, he has no idea who the guy is and would not be
upset by the death, so lying to him for the next four years and insisting that
you can't possibly tell him is clearly more about your issues than doing
what's right for the kid.

It'd also be a good idea to realize that the rest of the world isn't going to
play along with your delusion, and that any day now someone, like say his
friends, are going to blurt out something about it that they overheard from
some adult. And that, not the dad he never even met, is what would actually be
upsetting.

In conclusion, contrived situation is contrived.]

Guess what, parents lie to their kids and parents make mistakes. That doesn't
make them selfish or delusional, especially if they're still hurting too. In
conclusion, so-called "contrived situation" is based on the real life truth
that parents aren't perfect. Ever have one of those times where you truly
believe you're doing the right thing and find out you were wrong all along? It
happens.

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Name: GalacticFTW
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1706782/
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Subject: re: Your review to Rubythroated Sparrow

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/5881368/

OK, thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

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Title: A Forgotten Legacy
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5881216/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1985424/
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Um, okay. I'm guessing that you really don't like my story much, then?
/sarcasm

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Title: File Not Found: Season One
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5881841/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2317544/
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Thank you for taking the time to review this, I really appreciate it.

In hindsight... I see that I do usually spend time writing conversations more
often than not. I see what you mean by the chatter, too, and I'll try to start
describing more. It may not be that interesting to write, but it's interesting
to read, right?

Also, thank you for those dialogue rules, they're really going to help (seeing
as my teachers never bothered to give us any... -_-)

The only thing I'm iffy about is the capitalization thing. The way I've always
seen it written, officially and in fan works, is that you put capitals on all
the names, regardless of whether it's "many Pikachu" or "Ash's
Pikachu". I do
see your point, though, and it doesn't really seem right when you look at it
logically, but I think I'll keep the species names capitalized. (I am debating
whether to write Pokéball or pokéball, though.)

Thank you again. :)

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Title: Dusknoir
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5878785/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2304704/
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Thank's for the information Farla! It wont happen again!

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Finally, another review. This one not explicitly stating it's due to NaRe, just assuming, since they all seem to cluster on this story.
Story: You
Chapter: 1. Chapter 1

From: Ciao Bello ( http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1961917/ )
Reply URL: http://login.fanfiction.net/review_pm.php?reviewid=102019847
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Um...
This was okay... to say the least. :K
Your writing style doesn't really appeal to me. Everything is really rushed
and... well, not really something I'm interested in reading. It seems clipped,
like you just put in one thought and decided to end it.
Anyway, I'd like to read a fic that has a bit more inflection in it. This
sounds a bit cold and disconnected.
Good luck with your writing,
Ciao Bello
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Title: Silver & Saphy's Excellent Adventure
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5882091/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1379555/
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As I mentioned, I wrote this for my girlfriend. I was trying to boost her
self-esteem; this story was not meant to appease other readers. Sorry if you
don't like the fluffyness, but you weren't exactly supposed to in the first
place.

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Title: PetraShipping
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5882128/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1706782/
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lmao, so true :P

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Title: Fault
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5881275/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1910866/
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I'm in a bad mood, but I'm trying not to let your review affect how I respond
to you.

Yeah I know this fic is not one of my best. It was just something I drafted in
the middle of the night. I really wished I did add more narration but I hardly
have time to write properly. Spent about an hour on it.

I really don't care that much for grammer to be honest. Not that it does not
matter, I just do not prioritize it over content. As long as I get the main
point across without losing the reader due to real grammatical errors. Like
the coup thing. Yeah I knew that was wrong. But I didn't want to look up the
real spelling of the proper term.

As for being mainly adialogue thing. I did that on purpose, for the most part.
As I said I was being lazy. But also I wanted to leave much more to the
imagination.

I will add more detail later. I plan on doing this, as every now and again I
try to update whatever I have written.

You never told me what you thought of the story. That was really what I am
looking for in reviews.

But thanks for taking some of your time for reading. I have read your name
several times in the forums. So seeing that you reviewed one of my fics. Kind
of made me feel a little good.

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Title: The Ties Of Time
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5879156/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1619150/
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First off, thank you for taking the time to read my story and offer your
review. Thank you once more for making it a constructive review. I put the
author's note to make sure that there would be no confusion. It was probably
not needed, but there are some idiots out there. The capitalization rule you
stated is correct but in a story, the author is not bound entirely to grammar
rules like that. In A Tale Of Two Cities, Dickens put a capitol D every time
he wrote "Death." I have chosen to make them proper nouns,it's just the
author's choice. Potions and milk (at least in the games and manga) are used
to treat scrapes and bruises and require no expertise to use. You wouldn't go
to a medic for that. About the guns and arrows, I'm assuming i just didn't
write that clearly. The way it was meant to read, it was saying that people
would rather have an arrow reflected back at them with double force than a
bullet. If that's how you read it, please explain what you mean. That was just
sloppy writing on my part. About the first chapter just setting the scene,
that's pretty normal for a book. I bring you back to A Tale Of Two Cities.
Dickens doesn't even introduce any characters in the first chapter. 1984 by
George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley also just use the first
chapter to set the scene. That is entirely a matter of preference on the
author's part. I'd like to thank you once more for your constructive review
and I hope you take the time to read future chapters. Of course, feel free to
reply to this with any comments or questions about other things I may not have
written clearly.

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Title: For The Love of Pokemon
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5880409/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2188738/
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Wait a
minute... haven't you rashed out on me before? Why do you feel the need to do
it twice? I knew your username looked farmiliar! Anyway, this is a website
for people's ideas to be heard. It's not like some proffesional book.
Musicyak has horrible grammar, yet the best story on the site. I don't bug
her about her grammar because I can still read and understand her stories.
Maybe you should try being nice for once and look past the grammar. And I was
going to explain the eeveelutions in the next chapter! It's because there was
a family of eevees. A mother and eight children. When the mother fell ill,
all the other eevees (except the midget) evolved into something different for
her. The smallest eevee promised his mother he would never change. he would
still be her little eevee no matter what happened. Then the mother died.
Shortly after, Crystal discovered the remaining family. She became included
and had a new dream poured onto her. To help any pokemon in need. Every
single one would safe and loved. When it came time for her journy, she took
her eeveelution family with her. Don't rash on me again! It's touching, not
stupid.

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Comments

[farla.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, I can't help but feel reviewers are partly to blame in this. People wouldn't be making this argument if not for the perception that there's some sort of arbitrary standard, and that people are complaining about any divergence from it, not about things that actually bother them.

Also, our school system, both for dropping the ball generally on explaining why they were using a particular device, and for not admitting that just because a story is a classic doesn't mean everything it did was perfect. That's where much of the perception that "if famous author did X then doing X is automatically good" stems from