Authors, Part Thirteen
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farlaName: WEquilsSTR
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2694861/
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Subject: re: Your review to The PseudoExtinction of Team Rocket
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6646238/
Hello again, Farla. I have encountered you before and have missed your brutal
honesty. You certainly have a right to your opinion, and I will not disagree
with you if you were to call my fanfic 'complete crap.' However, in order to
be a better reviewer, it is imperative that you also give positive feedback on
the story (even if it is something small). From experience with my job and
from studies conducted by professionals, writers who are mentored (meaning
that they receive both positive and negative feedback about what they have
written) write better.
I will never be a perfect writer, but I do not appreciate your method of
reviewing. You are free to disagree with me on this, and if you do, please do
not review or read any of the future stories I post here, and I mean that in
the most polite way. I want to connect with Fanfiction writers who will not
only tell me what is not correct, but also tell me what they like and what
should be expanded upon. It is nothing personal. Please have a great evening.
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Name: Traveling Trainer
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2544205/
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Subject: re: Your review to A Lizard, a Turtle, and a Bird
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6645123/
You said the exact same thing on my other story, only reversed the order of
the paragraphs. Admittedly, this is because these two stories were uploaded
recently, so that's not entirely your fault for saying it over again.
I mean no offense to you or your NaNoWhateverIt'sCalled challenge, but I think
people - in general, not just me - would appreciate your reviews a little more
if you made at least a little effort to comment on the story, as well as using
your copy-pasta paragraphs. I've noticed that you have done so on some
stories, but most of the reviews are simply the same copy-pasta paragraphs on
certain things over and over. I especially noticed that you have that "don't
capitalize Pokemon species" over and over. When you use copy-pasta frequently
like this, it just seems like you're... not really reading the story.
I mean, I appreciate that you even bothered to review my stuff either way, but
still.
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That's pretty accurate, to be fair. On the other hand, why the fuck are people still writing dialogue like that if I already told them they're doing it wrong?
Name: YukitheRedFox
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2081076/
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Subject: Thanks for reviewing
Hey, thanks for reviewing Little White Lie. ^^
Would it be safe to assume you happened across my shameless advertising in the
thread on "A Load of Pokeballs!"? lol
The capitalisation of the word 'Pokemon' and the names of Pokemon is kind-of a
habit-- that and they look weird to me if they don't begin with capital
letters. (I blame the completely capital names of Pokemon in the games) I'll
see if I can change my way of thinking with it though, and take your feedback
on-board.
...and that's kind of a habit of mine, too... ^^;; It's why I usually take so
long in posting things on here, if not for my own laziness. Though I do plan
on revising this story once I've completed it, so hopefully I'll be able to
make parts of it make more sense. Hopefully.
Though in part, some of the vagueness is intentional, and the reason for that
will hopefully become apparent as the story progresses. I just hope I can do
it well enough...
But anyway, again, thank you for taking the time to read it and leave
feedback. I greatly appreciate it. ^^
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You have received a reply from the author, AnonOrange-FFA, regarding the
review you posted for:
Title: Lake Verity
Chapter: 5
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6646532/5/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2696404/
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Thank you for your input, but do please stop copy and pasting the
capitalisation speech. I've seen you put it in more than one review and quite
frankly, it's annoying to see the same thing being put in to every review you
make.
I did explain that the story was a request from the folks on /tr/ at the
beginning of the story and that many aspects may not entirely make sense
because of that. But again, thank you.
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Name: blythe dragon
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/758013/
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Subject: re: Your review to AAML Mini Drabbles
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6646226/
It's always bugged me to see pokemon in lowercase, but it's true that it's not
really a word that needs to be capitalized unless it's being used as a proper
noun. I wrote pokemon as "Pokemon" for my own personal aesthetics - to me it
looks better in a sentence, paragraph, etc. - but I'll consider writing it
correctly in any future stories.
The first and last time I read Romeo and Juliet was over 15 years ago, so I'm
not surprised that the impression I give is that I've never read it. If I do
decide to seriously write a fanfiction using any of the dialogue from
"Conversations 2", I would either do proper research on Romeo and Juliet, or
I'd have Ash and Misty talk about something else.
As far as romance novels go, I have read several over the years, though I
mainly stick with stories by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb and Debbie Macomber. I
know that Ash's generalization of romance novels is rather narrow-minded, but
that was how I imagined him explaining what he thinks of that particular
genre. Once again, if I ever use any of the dialogue in that section in an
actual story, then it's highly probable that there will be modifications to
what they're saying in the final draft.
Thank you for providing me with blunt feedback; I appreciate your input.
While I have no plans on seriously honing my meager writing skills by writing
craploads of fanfiction, I see no reason not to go ahead and try to do a good
job on what I do manage to crank out.
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Name: TeamRocketDiva
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1097523/
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Subject: re: Your review to Twyla's Aura Journey
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6644261/
Hi
First of all, she is not sue. If she is then that makes her exactly like Ash
Ketchum, who also can use Aura, who also has a rival, several I might add and
who also has a Team after him. There you go, the main character of the show is
a Stu, who gets out of situations easily and has seen all the legendaries. So
what if I made her use magic, unlike other characters that gives her some
originality. I'm making her learn how to control Aura, it's not as if she's
gonna grasp it just like that, she's gonna make mistakes and it's gonna be
hard work.
Did I say that she was perfect? No, I didn't, if I make her good at one thing,
like using magic, it wouldn't make her perfect. If I gave her some slightly
exotic looks, then that's ok. It's called creative license.
What's wrong with having a Team after her, every story needs an antagonist.
What's wrong with having the son of Ash as her rival? I'm a Rocketshipper and
I like the idea of James and Jessie's kid being better than Ash's, plus I'm in
Anti-Ash mode.
Everyone asks for characters, do you tell that to everyone who creates an OC
story? Poor you. You told me all that before and I didn't listen then and I'm
not going to listen now, it's a free country. Plus, I only kept the part
saying I was accepting OCs on for a day. I have a main group, Twyla, her
brother, love interest and two or three friends. The rest will be characters
of the day and will pop up in a certain chapter that's all. I only have a few
OCs, no a thousand.
It's "lose". Wow, one mistake, it's the end of the world, help. So I make one
mistake, I'm going to "lose" all my readers. Get over yourself.
I will capitalize whatever is needed and words like pokemon or pikachu or
charizard do need Capital letters, so not listening to you on that either.
Pokemon names are Proper Nouns. I would never capitalize a word like
telephone, are you mad? I'm not stupid and my mother is very good at English
and so am I, it's my best subject. I spoke to my mom the first time you sent
this note and she disagreed with it and I take her word over yours any day of
the week.
Get a Beta Reader! That is insulting! I use Spell check and I read over and
correct whatever mistakes I find, but you know what, not everyone is perfect,
not even famous authors, who also make mistakes.
Now the next OC story I put up, please don't bother to review, because I'm not
going to listen, you only do this to discourage people from writing and I will
never be discouraged from doing something I love. So copy and paste your note,
on someone who cares and not many people will care for it.
Good day
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Name: Psyduck Ranger
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/920181/
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Subject: Review reply.
Hi, this is Psyduck Ranger, the editor of Forever Red. I'd like to reply to
your reviews myself.
"So, basically a massive self-insert suefest."
Obviously you're not actually familiar with the source story of the characters
in question. Admittedly, sometimes people don't think about it, and one person
certainly made his character a sue (not for the first time), but no, whilst
the characters are self-inserts, it is not a "suefest".
Why is it too short? It's an introduction - a prologue, essentially. It's the
author's choice as to how long he wants to make his chapters, not the
readers'.
"...product placement..."
Yes, because I'm sure the fact he mentioned those words in a fanfiction story
will have a huge impact on the reader. Maybe he was just naming those products
because he likes them? Is that so unbelievable?
Ok, there were one or two spelling & grammar errors. For that I can only
apologise, and promise I'll try harder in future.
Capitalising Pokémon names is a stylistic choice that if Blazin' Saddles
hadn't made I'd have edited in myself. It's a choice made by the majority of
the fandom, following the example of Nintendo who do the same thing. You'll be
hard pressed, based on my experience, to find Pokémon names non-capitalised
intentionally.
"What."
Well that's clearly supposed to be a question, so it should be followed by a
question mark (that's why they call them "question marks"). That said, it's
not exactly a full question, is it? You've not exactly made yourself clear on
what the problem is. I'll assume, however, that it's the phrase "baby doll".
So what? Sure, it's an odd turn of phrase, but it gets the point across;
something weak & defenceless.
"...I have to admit this is certainly faithful to the show. Also what the
fuck."
You quoted three paragraphs to say that? Do you have a problem with the
morphing? Because throughout the entire review you've been pretty unclear.
Is there a problem with being faithful to the style of the material the story
is based on?
Also, once again you've forgotten a necessary question mark, and yet you had
the audacity to attempt to comment on some of our spelling & grammar?
Furthermore your language is most certainly not needed & not appreciated. On
top of that you've left yourself completely unclear once again, so I have no
idea what your problem is (in more ways than one).
Clearly you're not enjoying this, so why bother continue reading it at all? I
can understand reading the first chapter, maybe you thought you'd enjoy it,
but it's obvious that you didn't, so why did you click onto the second one?
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Name: percyfan97
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2664280/
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Subject: re: Your review to Johto: A Pokemon Masters Journey
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6644697/
thanks for the review and grammar tips, i had no idea about the
capitalization. D you have any idea about how i can make the story less
generic and boring in the future?
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You have received a reply from the author, foooomonkey, regarding the review
you posted for:
Title: My Shero truly
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6640937/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2331780/
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Thanks a lot, but Pikachu and Charizard are the names of Pokemon. I know I've
got a lot to work on... Wow! Are you like a teacher or something (no offense)?
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Name: weatherprophetK
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2564262/
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Subject: re: Your review to abilitypokemon
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6641952/
well like I said before this is my first fanfiction so I'm new to this but you
do raise some excellent points about my spelling and storywriting thanks for
pointing that out for me.
By the way next time you comment can you please point out both the good and
the bad so you don't sound like your ranting.
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Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2694861/
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Subject: re: Your review to The PseudoExtinction of Team Rocket
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6646238/
Hello again, Farla. I have encountered you before and have missed your brutal
honesty. You certainly have a right to your opinion, and I will not disagree
with you if you were to call my fanfic 'complete crap.' However, in order to
be a better reviewer, it is imperative that you also give positive feedback on
the story (even if it is something small). From experience with my job and
from studies conducted by professionals, writers who are mentored (meaning
that they receive both positive and negative feedback about what they have
written) write better.
I will never be a perfect writer, but I do not appreciate your method of
reviewing. You are free to disagree with me on this, and if you do, please do
not review or read any of the future stories I post here, and I mean that in
the most polite way. I want to connect with Fanfiction writers who will not
only tell me what is not correct, but also tell me what they like and what
should be expanded upon. It is nothing personal. Please have a great evening.
--------------------
Name: Traveling Trainer
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2544205/
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Subject: re: Your review to A Lizard, a Turtle, and a Bird
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6645123/
You said the exact same thing on my other story, only reversed the order of
the paragraphs. Admittedly, this is because these two stories were uploaded
recently, so that's not entirely your fault for saying it over again.
I mean no offense to you or your NaNoWhateverIt'sCalled challenge, but I think
people - in general, not just me - would appreciate your reviews a little more
if you made at least a little effort to comment on the story, as well as using
your copy-pasta paragraphs. I've noticed that you have done so on some
stories, but most of the reviews are simply the same copy-pasta paragraphs on
certain things over and over. I especially noticed that you have that "don't
capitalize Pokemon species" over and over. When you use copy-pasta frequently
like this, it just seems like you're... not really reading the story.
I mean, I appreciate that you even bothered to review my stuff either way, but
still.
--------------------
That's pretty accurate, to be fair. On the other hand, why the fuck are people still writing dialogue like that if I already told them they're doing it wrong?
Name: YukitheRedFox
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2081076/
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Subject: Thanks for reviewing
Hey, thanks for reviewing Little White Lie. ^^
Would it be safe to assume you happened across my shameless advertising in the
thread on "A Load of Pokeballs!"? lol
The capitalisation of the word 'Pokemon' and the names of Pokemon is kind-of a
habit-- that and they look weird to me if they don't begin with capital
letters. (I blame the completely capital names of Pokemon in the games) I'll
see if I can change my way of thinking with it though, and take your feedback
on-board.
...and that's kind of a habit of mine, too... ^^;; It's why I usually take so
long in posting things on here, if not for my own laziness. Though I do plan
on revising this story once I've completed it, so hopefully I'll be able to
make parts of it make more sense. Hopefully.
Though in part, some of the vagueness is intentional, and the reason for that
will hopefully become apparent as the story progresses. I just hope I can do
it well enough...
But anyway, again, thank you for taking the time to read it and leave
feedback. I greatly appreciate it. ^^
--------------------
You have received a reply from the author, AnonOrange-FFA, regarding the
review you posted for:
Title: Lake Verity
Chapter: 5
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6646532/5/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2696404/
--------------------
Thank you for your input, but do please stop copy and pasting the
capitalisation speech. I've seen you put it in more than one review and quite
frankly, it's annoying to see the same thing being put in to every review you
make.
I did explain that the story was a request from the folks on /tr/ at the
beginning of the story and that many aspects may not entirely make sense
because of that. But again, thank you.
--------------------
Name: blythe dragon
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/758013/
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Subject: re: Your review to AAML Mini Drabbles
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6646226/
It's always bugged me to see pokemon in lowercase, but it's true that it's not
really a word that needs to be capitalized unless it's being used as a proper
noun. I wrote pokemon as "Pokemon" for my own personal aesthetics - to me it
looks better in a sentence, paragraph, etc. - but I'll consider writing it
correctly in any future stories.
The first and last time I read Romeo and Juliet was over 15 years ago, so I'm
not surprised that the impression I give is that I've never read it. If I do
decide to seriously write a fanfiction using any of the dialogue from
"Conversations 2", I would either do proper research on Romeo and Juliet, or
I'd have Ash and Misty talk about something else.
As far as romance novels go, I have read several over the years, though I
mainly stick with stories by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb and Debbie Macomber. I
know that Ash's generalization of romance novels is rather narrow-minded, but
that was how I imagined him explaining what he thinks of that particular
genre. Once again, if I ever use any of the dialogue in that section in an
actual story, then it's highly probable that there will be modifications to
what they're saying in the final draft.
Thank you for providing me with blunt feedback; I appreciate your input.
While I have no plans on seriously honing my meager writing skills by writing
craploads of fanfiction, I see no reason not to go ahead and try to do a good
job on what I do manage to crank out.
--------------------
Name: TeamRocketDiva
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1097523/
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Subject: re: Your review to Twyla's Aura Journey
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6644261/
Hi
First of all, she is not sue. If she is then that makes her exactly like Ash
Ketchum, who also can use Aura, who also has a rival, several I might add and
who also has a Team after him. There you go, the main character of the show is
a Stu, who gets out of situations easily and has seen all the legendaries. So
what if I made her use magic, unlike other characters that gives her some
originality. I'm making her learn how to control Aura, it's not as if she's
gonna grasp it just like that, she's gonna make mistakes and it's gonna be
hard work.
Did I say that she was perfect? No, I didn't, if I make her good at one thing,
like using magic, it wouldn't make her perfect. If I gave her some slightly
exotic looks, then that's ok. It's called creative license.
What's wrong with having a Team after her, every story needs an antagonist.
What's wrong with having the son of Ash as her rival? I'm a Rocketshipper and
I like the idea of James and Jessie's kid being better than Ash's, plus I'm in
Anti-Ash mode.
Everyone asks for characters, do you tell that to everyone who creates an OC
story? Poor you. You told me all that before and I didn't listen then and I'm
not going to listen now, it's a free country. Plus, I only kept the part
saying I was accepting OCs on for a day. I have a main group, Twyla, her
brother, love interest and two or three friends. The rest will be characters
of the day and will pop up in a certain chapter that's all. I only have a few
OCs, no a thousand.
It's "lose". Wow, one mistake, it's the end of the world, help. So I make one
mistake, I'm going to "lose" all my readers. Get over yourself.
I will capitalize whatever is needed and words like pokemon or pikachu or
charizard do need Capital letters, so not listening to you on that either.
Pokemon names are Proper Nouns. I would never capitalize a word like
telephone, are you mad? I'm not stupid and my mother is very good at English
and so am I, it's my best subject. I spoke to my mom the first time you sent
this note and she disagreed with it and I take her word over yours any day of
the week.
Get a Beta Reader! That is insulting! I use Spell check and I read over and
correct whatever mistakes I find, but you know what, not everyone is perfect,
not even famous authors, who also make mistakes.
Now the next OC story I put up, please don't bother to review, because I'm not
going to listen, you only do this to discourage people from writing and I will
never be discouraged from doing something I love. So copy and paste your note,
on someone who cares and not many people will care for it.
Good day
--------------------
Name: Psyduck Ranger
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/920181/
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Subject: Review reply.
Hi, this is Psyduck Ranger, the editor of Forever Red. I'd like to reply to
your reviews myself.
"So, basically a massive self-insert suefest."
Obviously you're not actually familiar with the source story of the characters
in question. Admittedly, sometimes people don't think about it, and one person
certainly made his character a sue (not for the first time), but no, whilst
the characters are self-inserts, it is not a "suefest".
Why is it too short? It's an introduction - a prologue, essentially. It's the
author's choice as to how long he wants to make his chapters, not the
readers'.
"...product placement..."
Yes, because I'm sure the fact he mentioned those words in a fanfiction story
will have a huge impact on the reader. Maybe he was just naming those products
because he likes them? Is that so unbelievable?
Ok, there were one or two spelling & grammar errors. For that I can only
apologise, and promise I'll try harder in future.
Capitalising Pokémon names is a stylistic choice that if Blazin' Saddles
hadn't made I'd have edited in myself. It's a choice made by the majority of
the fandom, following the example of Nintendo who do the same thing. You'll be
hard pressed, based on my experience, to find Pokémon names non-capitalised
intentionally.
"What."
Well that's clearly supposed to be a question, so it should be followed by a
question mark (that's why they call them "question marks"). That said, it's
not exactly a full question, is it? You've not exactly made yourself clear on
what the problem is. I'll assume, however, that it's the phrase "baby doll".
So what? Sure, it's an odd turn of phrase, but it gets the point across;
something weak & defenceless.
"...I have to admit this is certainly faithful to the show. Also what the
fuck."
You quoted three paragraphs to say that? Do you have a problem with the
morphing? Because throughout the entire review you've been pretty unclear.
Is there a problem with being faithful to the style of the material the story
is based on?
Also, once again you've forgotten a necessary question mark, and yet you had
the audacity to attempt to comment on some of our spelling & grammar?
Furthermore your language is most certainly not needed & not appreciated. On
top of that you've left yourself completely unclear once again, so I have no
idea what your problem is (in more ways than one).
Clearly you're not enjoying this, so why bother continue reading it at all? I
can understand reading the first chapter, maybe you thought you'd enjoy it,
but it's obvious that you didn't, so why did you click onto the second one?
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Name: percyfan97
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2664280/
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Subject: re: Your review to Johto: A Pokemon Masters Journey
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6644697/
thanks for the review and grammar tips, i had no idea about the
capitalization. D you have any idea about how i can make the story less
generic and boring in the future?
--------------------
You have received a reply from the author, foooomonkey, regarding the review
you posted for:
Title: My Shero truly
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6640937/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2331780/
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Thanks a lot, but Pikachu and Charizard are the names of Pokemon. I know I've
got a lot to work on... Wow! Are you like a teacher or something (no offense)?
--------------------
Name: weatherprophetK
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2564262/
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Subject: re: Your review to abilitypokemon
A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6641952/
well like I said before this is my first fanfiction so I'm new to this but you
do raise some excellent points about my spelling and storywriting thanks for
pointing that out for me.
By the way next time you comment can you please point out both the good and
the bad so you don't sound like your ranting.
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Date: 2011-01-15 05:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-15 02:56 pm (UTC)This is a most glorious day.
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Date: 2011-01-30 10:56 am (UTC)Get a Beta Reader! That is insulting!
That comment, though... I couldn't resist. Seriously, this person needs to remind themselves what a beta reader can actually do. They're not just someone to fix up your tiny little grammar mistakes, they can help with plot, they can be someone to bounce ideas off -- are they mad?
I hope I'm not the only one who sees something wrong with that comment. o___o
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Date: 2011-01-30 08:07 pm (UTC)