Authors, Part Twenty-four

[farla]

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

Title: The Cuties of Wigglytuff's Guild
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6669524/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2311744/
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Okay... who cares how it's written? I wrote it to entertain people, not to be
grammatically correct all the time. Don't like it, don't read. Okay, bye. :D

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Name: BuizelBoy
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1722165/
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Subject: re: Your review to A New Perspective

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6667467/

Who said they will succeed? The prophecy may have meant that they were
supposed to help the 'Chosen' One. You don't know what this story has in store
for you as the reader. Plus i'm only 16! I hate english calss! I'd prefer to
take a foregn language. QUIT CRITCIZING!!

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You have received a reply from the author, Serenity.Jones, regarding the
review you posted for:

Title: A Beautiful Friendship
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6669658/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1437233/
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Fantastic! A review worth reading!
To be honest, I've only received two reviews that contained so much
constructive criticism. Yours, and some othe dude for another fanfiction. But,
that is beside the point. :)

Capitalising random words is to bring emphasis on a specific word instead of
slanting it. Yes, it maybe common, but style tends to be effective as well.
You should be familiar with it.

The introduction, I understand, It's based on opionion. Therefor, it's meant
to gather a readers attention. I don't introduce my stories in saying, "Hi, my
name is Blarg Blarg. I like candy and to play with my dolls." In other words,
I don't want my story to be a bore. Or another casual.

The background plot, having some one 'study' is not just about pokemon and
battling with moves and stratgies, an education is important too. Chapter two
will go into that a bit more.

Also, I understand that the Cinnabar island sentence is a mistake. A complete
error, if you will. Therefor, your response to the sentence solved the my
questioning.

From what I can gather from your review, you're most likely not a "one of
those writers'. Defineatly expeirnced people who wrote craptastic work. I'm
one of them.

All in all. I appreciate your review and I will put effort into fixing the
chapter.
Thank you for considering the option to review in general.

- Serenity.

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

Title: The War of the Forest
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6656701/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2692966/
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Thanks for the review, I'll take it into mind. Of course, the lack of current
info is to create an air of suspense. Everything does get revealed in due time
and the fact that so many things remain vague is to have more people try to
figure things out. I guess I'm failing at that, but I won't let that daunt me.
After all, it IS the first chapter, still.

Plus, my reviews can't all be good. A little harsh criticism never hurt
anybody. So thanks for that, even if you didn't really help me solve the
problem anyhow. But whatever. ;)

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Name: GrassPokemonFTW
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2692966/
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Subject: re: Your review to The War of the Forest

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6656701/

Ah, I jsut located the second review. And ooh, you were very harsh this time.
I guess I really oughta be checking my story.

Dialogue...nothing much I can do about that. People are aloud to talk, right?
There will be plenty of narration. Again, first chapter, we've barely
started.

As for the monarchy, this isn't real. Not all things that happen in a FANFIC,
for one, doesn't have to be incorporated with REAL LIFE. They're literally
polar opposites, so I plan on disregarding that. After all, even if you MUST
incorporate it with real life, 44 countries are still monarchies. Who said
Canada was falling apart? Or Austrailia? They're both monarchies, last I
checked. Plus, who said it was going to last? Did I ever say it was going to
remain stable? It's all a part of my entaglement of hidden details.

The Grovyle wandering off...oh crud! I missed that! Holy crud, I should have
caught that, as it was in completely different font earlier. Thank you, I'll
get to editing that. Phew.

" in thoughts, checking the grammar books for further backing, is totally
acceptable. IO just need to put "[insert thought]" thought [insert
character].

Also, I felt the word "said" is waaaaaaaay too simplistic. I'd rather use
variations of it to prevent over-repetitive word use. I do use said sometimes,
though. right?

Overall, I find your reviews to lack any proof.

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Name: Fircoal
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1379679/
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Subject: re: Your review to Chillarmy Tails

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6671317/

[You wouldn't capitalize animal or mouse or dragon, so you shouldn't
capitalize words like pokemon or pikachu or charizard. The only time you
should capitalize it is if you're using it as the pokemon's name, ie, Ash's
pikachu is called Pikachu. This is because you only capitalize when it's a
proper noun, which are the names of places or things. Similar reasoning should
be applied to any other words you're thinking of capitalizing, like telephone
or trainer. Or professor.]

We disagree. I doubt either of us with convince each other so I'll ignore
this.

[[our family had only limited money and thus decided to set my little sister,
of only ten years of age compared to my fourteen, with any Pokemon that she
wanted, and of course she had to go for the expensive rare Eevee that was so
lusted after by most of the school, so that there would be no money left for
me to get a Pokemon. Of course concerning my parents' idea of me they probably
wouldn't let me get a Pokemon anyway, even if it was a cheap Rattata at a pet
store. ]

So it's an abuse sue today.]

I wouldn't say sue, but I do agree that I probably over played the amount of
abuse I've made the character undergo in the thing. It was mainly to provide
reason into the plot though think about it now I may have a better reason that
I may edit in.

[[She was quite big for her age, and pretty much reached five feet; she was
only a couple of inches shorter than I was. She had a small slender frame and
couldn't have weighted more than 80 pounds. ]

That's not slender, that's starving.]

And that's what I get for not using references. (and for using numbers too)

[...and now it's just endless people being mean to your precious main
character for no discernible reason. Wow, this is boring. What's really sad is
you probably think this is some super clever parody of the concept, instead of
being the exact same thing.]

This is a discernible reason one that I probably didn't really come up with
until halfway into the part and probably did not communicate well.

Anyway overall I agree with the idea I probably over played the abuse factors.
Probably part of the problem is just in the fact that I tried to create
something to get into what I had for the main idea of the plot. I think I
should probably fix these things up.

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Name: Akeila-Lynn
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2480759/
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Subject: re: Your review to Master Triplets

Thanks for your thoughtful review.
I personally don't like using grass types, it was always time consuming and a
waste of time to me. I suppose it just depends on the person.

I did it all for fun, I wasn't trying to make everything sound perfect.
I edit a lot, so I rebelled by making this imperfect.

It was nice to have someone notice it and critique.
Thanks a lot:)

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Name: GodaiRyuuKitsune
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2536649/
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Subject: re: Your review to I'm in Love with You

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6670217/

sry for the terrible writing but i can only make fanfics in my head and when i
write it, it doesnt come out rite so sry i cant help it but u can tell me
about my next one and thx u for the comment

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You have received a reply from the author, MeowthDat'sRight, regarding the
review you posted for:

Title: In Your Dreams
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6673827/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2045008/
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Geez! Sor-ry Teach! X3
Nobody Told Me This Was An English Essay Or I Would've Studied! X3
Also, If You Don't Like The Idea Of Meowth + Pikachu Then You Just Shouldn't
Read The Story! Not Read It And Then Totally Butcher It! ^^;
It Was Just For Fun And If You Don't Like It Then Fair Enough! =3

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Name: GardevoirLove4ever
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2560608/
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Subject: re: Your review to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: my version

It's only 2 chapters in u damned flamer! If it was so 'terrible' then why'd u
read it? o-o Never-and I mean NEVER flame my stories u bitch!!

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

Title: Testing Deletability
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6663073/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2344895/
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I know it's not very good. I just wanted to test whether deleting a story on
word would affect the copy on here, hence the title. Then I figured why not
make it about a porygon. Thanks for the input. Might actually expand on this
idea.

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Name: ThunderStriker13
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2700266/
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Subject: re: Your review to Pokemon Generations: What we really are

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6664992/

thanks for the review, i fixed some of the stuff

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I'm just going to pause a minute to discuss this. I just looked at their story, which got a review pointing out individual errors and general ones. As far as I can tell, it's identical to the way it was originally. This isn't unusual. I'm not sure if it's that review culture has changed and people feel obligated to reply with something even when they don't care or what, but basically, a lot of the "thanks" reviews don't involve actually fixing things.

I'm not actually upset about this, for the record, I have to accept that a lot of the people I review just flat out can't follow the advice yet. But it's one of the reasons I have no real idea if this accomplishes anything.

Name: KatieMusicLuvr177
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2706522/
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Subject: re: Your review to Crazy Love

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6668140/

I'm just a beginner OK! I've only been a user for about a week and a half!
Thanks for the corrections though, and it's nice of u to thinks it's
impressive.

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Name: KatieMusicLuvr177
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2706522/
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Subject: re: Your review to Crazy Love

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6668140/

What does OOC MEAN anyway? I've seen people use it, only I haven't the
foggiest idea what it means

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Name: TheNooby
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2472692/
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Subject: re: Your review to E Pluribus Adeku!: Rise of a Champion

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6673907/

Thank you for reviewing. I'll edit according to your accomadations later. Of
course, though, on the second part, I don't agree with you. But, don't worry,
I'll give a good explanation for why all the Pokemon (I mean, pokemon) are
named as proper nouns.

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

Title: Pokèmon: The Next Generation
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6673637/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2512016/
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Farla,

I thank you for the feedback, but there were some places where I felt you you
were being ignorant and, quite frank, acting like a douchbag. Please listen to
my side of the story.

Leo recognizes the woman's voice because he is woozy and thinks it actually is
his mom. But when his eyes see where the voice comes from. Granted, I should
have explained. That is one case where you were, in a sense, right.

As for the capitalization errors, I thank you for being pleasant there as
well. But the games and anime have it along as Pokèmon is capitalized and so
are words like Pikachu or Charmander. I'm afraid you lose at that aspect.

Now, this is where I find you became a douchbag. With your "smug and idiotic
comment" I apologize. I'm not good with the beginning of any story I right, so
I felt awkward. That could have been handled much better, I'll admit, but for
you to call me an idiot for it isn't fair.

Another point where your know-it-all attitude came into play was the next
thing you pointed out. What I meant for there was that was what was going
through his head. I realize if you look up a Pokèmon fanfiction that people
will already know a lot. But it fits in with the story.

As for the "okay OK", does it really matter? I've seen it used both ways by
the same person. But thank you for sort of ending your superior attitude
there.

I thank you for your compliment here, though your words confuse me quite a
bit. (But he doesn't really
have any consequences from his crazy outburst. Imagine if your sibling did
this. You wouldn't just wonder if they had a fever, you'd be pretty
disturbed,
and I doubt you'd accept their vague later explanation that they hit their
head as a reason why they're actually fine to go on a trip. {These are your
words}) Well, that's not what happened, obviously. And Melissha is not his
sibling, in case you were wondering. He doesn't have a sibling. He has a
mother and Melissha was his friend. Please elaborate if you will. Here, I must
also acknowledge you not being superior.

It doesn't matter if it's ridiculous. This is a FANFICTION not a "Oh, go ahead
and make it realistic," okay? If you want it to be that way, you can get out
right now. Thanks.

The end comment is quite true, but I've explained myself above: I get kinda
weird at the beginning of any story. Then it gets better. I hope this explains
a lot, and if you reply to this, I'd appreciate a dignified, nice response. If
not, I promise you, things will get ugly.

~TSGTorimori

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Name: BNVshark123
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1792228/
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Subject: re: Your review to Calm Before the Storm

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6673770/

Okay, I have to admit, I was a bit saddened by this review for a while, but
then I realized that this is the kind of review I've wanted for a long, long
time. Although I have a few questions. Exactly what is an epithet? I honestly
didn't get that.

As for the dialogue commas, that's just the style of writing I learned from
another (greater) writer here on . I was taught that, that was how you wrte
dialogue lines.

As for that last part, about the woman exclaiming, that was just my take on
what she did, during her line. Now I've read some of your stories too and I've
noticed that we both have completely different styles, so that might be why
you thought it looked weird.

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Name: BlueRingedUmbreon23
Profile: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2630658/
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Subject: re: Your review to Rise of a New Exploration Team

A response to your review at http://www.fanfiction.net/r/6674466/

I want to thank you for the insight. I see your point about the not
capitalizing the species name of the pokemon, but although you wouldn't
capitalize dog or cat, those aren't the actual name of those species. Dog is a
general term for canines, but it is not the name of the species. For example,
a golden retriever is actually a Canis lupus familiaris. See how the C is
capitalized Pikachu is technically the scientific name far the pokemon, so it
is capitalized.

I do appreciate the advice on the dialogue and I'm sorry about the confusion
about the mind probing. Raine, the Absol, wasn't conscious when she arrived.
Arceus had to probe her mind before she woke up because he was worried about
her deciding to attack him (I refer to Arceus as a him for lack of a better
pronoun).

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You have received a reply from the author, Kin and Gin, regarding the review
you posted for:

Title: You're My Best Enemy
Chapter: 1
Story URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6676013/1/
Author URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2524462/
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Dude. We're two middle school students who tapped this out at 2:00 in the
morning on a sleepover. This is a fanfic, not a novel. I'm happy you noticed
mistakes and pointed them out, but please don't bang on us so much. We'll fix
the mistakes when we have a free minute together. And we do this for fun, not
money. I'm sorry about all my mistakes. And yes, they're MY mistakes. I typed
the whole thing while Gin sat beside me and gave me the ideas we had. I've
been having some sleep trouble lately, and that's probably why I've got a
serious fever as I type this message. Sorry if I seem angry in this message,
and thanks for pointing out all the mistakes in our prologue.

~Kin

P.S. The trainers are 12/13 because a) we're 13 and

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Someone asked me about getting a beta reader, and I realized I have no idea who to refer them to. There's the general beta reader list, and you can work your way through that, find someone whose writing looks good and have them beta. But if you're really shaky on mechanics, it's going to be hard to tell who knows what they're doing and who doesn't, and there's a number of people who do something consistently but wrong who will just teach bad habits. I'm thinking I should start a thread for vetted beta readers, but I don't want to if I don't have to, so is there anything like that now/any of you want to do it instead?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Plus i'm only 16! I hate english calss! I'd prefer to
take a foregn language.

Never would have guessed.

Nobody Told Me This Was An English Essay Or I Would've Studied! X3

Why Do People Type Like This

[bay115.livejournal.com]

Why Do People Type Like This

Because That Writing Style Is So "In" And Trendy!

(Haha, I think I broke my fingers typing like that.)

[farla.livejournal.com]

I Actually Sort Of Liked Seeing It
But That Was For Completely Unrelated Reasons

[(Anonymous)]

iT's LiKe A mOtHeRfUcKiNg MiRaCle

[(Anonymous)]

honk

HONK

:O)

[farla.livejournal.com]

:((

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

I was kind of -Excited to see it before I noticed the punctuation and smil-Eys.

And then I remembered w)(at just )(appened and was sad all over again. 38(

[farla.livejournal.com]

*farla has pretty much disengaged*
*she thinks that what's important is that we liked the characters*
*and that maybe a lot of what we liked was the fan interpretation*
*which is still up to us*
don't be sad!
i mean *farla says that*

[(Anonymous)]

Obviously They're Golems. Somebody Needs To Tell Them That They've Wandered Into The Wrong Series.

[(Anonymous)]

WHO4 YOU R3PL13D R1G4T 4FT3R M3! TWO 4NONYM1C3 SO CLOS3 TOG3TH3R... FR34KY!

[farla.livejournal.com]

dAMMIT, i WANTED TO TYPE LIKE HER NEXT, i SPENT SO MUCH TIME LEARNING,

[(Anonymous)]

Well it's okay, OK! theres still LIKE 100 other author styles u can copy from, OK! Anyway i bet u would rather b taking a foregn language, RIGHT? There's waaay cool styles in other COOLER languages. Like "konnichiwa" or "chibi" or "desu," OK?!

[farla.livejournal.com]

BUT THERE'S ONLY TWELVE TROLLS AND TEREZI IS ONE OF THE BEST ONES
SHE STRIKES THIS NICE BALANCE BETWEEN LEGIBLE AND ODD
KARKAT'S TOO EASY

[(Anonymous)]

Um... Maybe you can copy GardevoirLove4Ever? She's got lots of chatspeak and name calling, just like all the cool kids!

[farla.livejournal.com]

I haven't really been talking about authors, anon friend. A character I like in a webcomic Capitalizes Every Word When She Converses With Others, so seeing someone do that reminded me of her. Other anon then copied two different characters for their response, one of whom I spent a lot of effort learning to type for fanfic, so I complained I didn't get a chance to use her.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh. I feel a little silly, then. Sorry about that! Actually, do you mind if I ask what comic? It sounds interesting.

[farla.livejournal.com]

No, we were the ones being silly. It was as much in-joke thing as the Pratchett reference but far harder to get.

Um. The comic is Homestuck (http://mspaintadventures.com/). A little while ago I'd have written "A character in a webcomic I like" and not "A character I like in a webcomic", but it's kind of going in a worrying direction right now. But I enjoyed most of what there is so far and the fandom's produced a lot of great stuff, and plenty of people are still happy with things.

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Oh my God I love today's responses.

[negrek.livejournal.com]

Everything is better with Homestuck references!

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Not just the comments, I mean the actual responses. Like the one who is proud of their story being impressively OOC. And the one who was trying to see if altering their word document would alter the uploaded story. And the FANFICTION AND REALITY ARE LITERALLY POLAR OPPOSITES.

[farla.livejournal.com]

It is kind of nice after all the boring "okay Farla thanks" stuff.

[negrek.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, those are very good today, too. BuizelBoy's is probably my favorite this batch, although GrassPokemonFTW is very close.

[knuddeluff.livejournal.com]

I'd like to thank you for doing this, not just for the entertainment value but for me to build my writing 'balls' by proxy.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Glad it's benefiting someone!

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

having a reliable list f0r betas w0uld be useful f0r th0se pe0ple but i d0nt kn0w 0f 0ne
but that means n0thing because i have never l00ked f0r 0ne 0n ff.net 0_0

[farla.livejournal.com]

evveryone and their drunken ferret signed up as a beta reader on ffn
its fuckin ridiculous
goin on about howw fuckin good they are at grammer

[(Anonymous)]

There's a website called Perfect Imagination that claims to be just that. (Though not just FFnet betas.) It looks pretty legit, but I've never used it so I can't say for sure.

opportunity to RSS

[(Anonymous)]

Yes there should realize the opportunity to RSS commentary, quite simply, CMS is another on the blog.