Authors, Part Twenty

[farla]

Name: BLUEMAN4336
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2062085/
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Subject: re: Your review to On its Axis

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6659752/

I'm pretty sure you are wrong on capitalization of Pokemon, but I am doing
this story for fun and don't really care about things like that. If there was
some big flaw like something misspelled I would check that out. If I really
cared about things like what you posted, I would've used a Beta Reader. If you
were implying that I capitalized professor wrong, I know I capitalized it
correctly, calling it a Pokemon Professor, Professor Fir, or the professor. I
am studying writing as a profession, and while I know that reviews are made
for positive and negative critisism, I think you went to far. On all my
stories I've recieved negative messages, and on the short stories I write for
school. I've also read the reviews you've written for other stories, and you
always write pretty much the same thing for every one of them, never anything
positive. Thank you for pointing some of these out, while I know for a fact
that you are wrong on the Pokemon part, I check up on that. Pokemon are
different from the animals of the real world, and I will work on the dialog.
Most of the people on this site are just writing for fun, and you should just
read the stories for the same reason the author has created them.

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

Title: Burn Me
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6659201/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/929737/
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They're capitalized in the games' context, so I capitalize them here.
(Excluding when the whole word was capitalized such as in the earliest
games... and in different sites--where I perform my research--they are also
capitalized.) Haha, I wouldn't ever think of capitalizing "telephone". But, as
mentioned before, "trainer" is capitalized in other contexts. I simply follow
the format of other sources. But I appreciate that you took the time to point
this out.

Hero worshiping AND dull. Impressive. Though I would say the beginning of this
review fell into the category of constructive criticism (other than the lovely
remark of "any other words you're thinking of capitalizing, like
'telephone'...", of course), I really don't believe that the second part does.
I appreciate that you took the time to give feedback for this. I truly do. But
if you're going to criticize, make it constructive as with the first part of
your review. Simply copying and pasting one paragraph and saying, "It's
melodramatic" doesn't give me any help in improving my work. It's just
criticism.

It's not that I can't handle criticism (I'm not going to cry over this review,
and I'm sorry to disappoint you if I think I will). I just don't appreciate
it. Constructive criticism, on the other hand, I do appreciate. I actually
work for my college as a writing tutor. I'm paid to give constructive
criticism to people--but not pure criticism.

So, I am so glad that you took the time to review. I certainly appreciate the
first half. Focus more on that--actually giving help--rather than just stating
opinions as facts without giving basis or help.

So, thanks! Hopefully this response will help you give more constructive
reviews in the future, and thank you for taking the time to even bother
reading my story.

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Name: ShortStuff24
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2662147/
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Subject: re: Your review to Just a Concert

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6657168/

IF YOU DONT LIKE IT THEN YOU SHOULDNT HAVE READ IT YOUR NOT MY PROBLEM I RELLY
DONT CARE IF YOU DO OR NOT MY FRIENDS AND OTHER PEOPLE LIKE IT SO WHAT EVER
ONE PERSON LIKE YOU CANT BRING ME DOWN ON ONE STORY

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Comments

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

I actually work for my college as a writing tutor.

D:

[farla.livejournal.com]

In fairness, they're probably just some idiot proofreading freshman essays.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Editing essays in my high school tutoring center was a very special experience. Each essay turned into us went through two rounds of edits. I always hated getting the second one, because more often than not I would have to edit the edits.

[farla.livejournal.com]

From their profile:
Writing Accreditation: 40+ fanfictions; participant in and winner of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010; published short-story/narrative writer; award-winner for mastery of English; writer on Figment (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/929737/)

I don't know if I should laugh or cry. Seriously, bragging about taking part in NaNoWriMo?

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Published in what? Awards from whom?

[farla.livejournal.com]

With how generic it is, I would bet money on their high school.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my thought as well. Quite some accreditation, that.