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farla ([personal profile] farla) wrote2011-01-06 08:51 am
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Authors, Part Five

Name: fairy lights shine bright
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2245105/
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Subject: Your Review

Dear Farla,

First of all, I would like to say thank you for taking the time to review my
story. So, I'm not here to criticise you or harass you or anything of that
nature. I think what you are doing is very good, and while it may have taken
me a couple of minutes to completely get over some of the things you wrote
(that sounds so pathetic xD) I'm very grateful for it. Flaming you would be
completely pointless at this stage anyway, it would not only be a waste of my
time, but a waste of yours too. Not that you would care, anyway, though I do
believe that that is not the way I want to come across. There is no point in
throwing a tantrum. Okay, so now I'm rambling on. Sorry.

Anyway, the other reason for writing you this PM is to at least defend myself
a little. I'm not going to argue about Grammar rules with you, because I am
perfectly sure you know what you are talking about. I would only like to point
out, that English is not actually my first language, but German is and of
course, the rules in Grammar are very different. One of these is
capitalization. Now, I don't know if you have any experience with the
language, but if you do, you would know that we capitalize a lot more and I
also know that capitalization has been a problem for me for a long while,
because I often mix things up and my Spell check doesn't highlight it for me
and I end up not noticing. Dialogue is also done differently and I will admit,
I wasn't totally aware of the rules on that side of things, so thank you for
that too.

I know you probably don't care about any of this anyway, but I think I almost
needed to send this for myself. If you can understand what I mean.

Thank you for your review,

Cass

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Name: Macy Webber
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2683895/
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Subject: re: Your review to The Mew stone

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6624603/

Thank-you for the tip

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Name: JL01
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2356407/
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Subject: re: Your review to The Chosen One, Book III: Beyond the Great Void

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6626058/

Words such as Pokémon, Pikachu and Charizard are all capitalized in pokemon
media such as Bulbapedia and . Even when not referring to any specific
singular Charizard, it is still spelt with a capital C in most Pokémon media
sites such as those aforementioned. It is not a mistake. Similarly, the titles
for all the professors, such as 'Professor Oak', 'Professor Elm', etc are all
capitalized as well in both sites, and the word 'professor' is only written in
the lower case, when used in sentences such as, 'The professor (insert
action)', or 'the professor said'. I have checked it beforehand, prior to
writing my stories. It is also not a mistake. Although I may have made quite a
few capitalization errors while writing my three stories, I will go back and
edit them when I have the chance.

Knowing Giovanni's prior obsession for acquiring Mewtwo again, it is perfectly
logical that he'd do so again, without paying adequate heed to the
consequences. It's in-character for him, and plus, I intend this book to
conclude with a final confrontation between Ash & friends and Team Rocket, so
only Giovanni's obsession with Mewtwo (along with his desire to bring all
Pokémon under his control) is the appropriate way to develop the story to
such a conclusion.

And for your information, this is a FANFICTION site, not a review site for
novels which actually become published by renowned publishers. The vast
majority of people don't care to that much of a high extent, for grammar,
spelling and punctuation to be grammar-nazi-standard perfect, and
predominantly don't care as long as they know WHO'S speaking to whom, as well
as the actions involved. Though I will take your dialogue critique into
consideration, your blatantly unnecessary and ignorant criticism of my chosen
plot without as much as to wait for another chapter to be published, is simply
abhorrent, offensive and rude.

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You have received a reply from the author, TheEbilBunni, regarding the review
you posted for:

Title: The One Who Got Away, A Yuki Tale
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6625563/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1909528/
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Well to answer your questions I don't really know. Most of it just kind of was
made up along the way of making it. My excuse for the one question will be
that they have two scientists working on each child or ditto and the two
scientists were to tired to think. As for the not talking part she just didn't
want to talk to the others.

I tried making it seem like the scientists were only grabbing children. I
thank you for the lesson in dialogue. I don't know why but I've never really
got how to write dialogue down. And thank you and hopefully my story won't
confuse you if you continue reading it. I tend to do that to people.

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Name: Skyrene
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1915121/
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Subject: re: Your review to The Heart and the Might

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6627454/

Thank you for the advice. I'll go and fix that. I've been uncertain for awhile
about that one, but there was no guide or anything I could find that said "you
shouldn't capitalize Pokemon names". But since they're as common as animals in
that world, I guess it makes sense.

Sincerely,

~Skyrene

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You have received a reply from the author, hiya-exclamationpoint, regarding
the review you posted for:

Title: Shadow
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6624355/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2672917/
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I didn't really want all that detail, but that's just how I am: I put too much
detail in the things that don't need it. I'll fix the pokemon names. The
reason I did it like that was because my internet browser has a spell-check
thing and I don't like the red squiggle line, and Pikachu doesn't have the
line under it, but pikachu does. I wanted to write more, but I also wanted to
see what the readers thought was being pulled out. I am lacking a beta reader,
so if you or someone you know wants to beta read my work, please tell me.

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Name: mcbryson12
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2667593/
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Subject: re: Your review to The Thrilling Adventures of Swift

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6627786/

Wow, Whats up with you going all crazy on that story.

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Name: mctori
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2683004/
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Subject: re: Your review to The Thrilling Adventures of Swift

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6627786/

Thanks for all of your comments, sorry my grammar wasn't the best that was the
first time I had ever really showed anyone my writing so I was just kind of
excited to show someone, but anyways thanks again I'll make sure to change
that right away.
(p.s. I'm sorry to say this you sound like a really nice person but for future
reference when you comment on another persons story you need to not just say
what they did wrong, but you also need to comment on things you believe they
did well. I'm older so it doesn't bother me that much but for younger kids or
younger teens it may make them feel discouraged from writing which is not the
objective of this site. But thanks again I'm excited to read some of your
stories I'm sure that they will be great8})

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