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Frostweaver

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  • well... I wouldn't choose A Light Kiss to be a story to learn tone from, as this story's most outstanding achievement is all the hidden meanings underneath (or on the marking system, story structure.)

    Who picked up the theme of "God vs Devil" in this fanfic, and has found supporting evidence for it? =D

    Full of symbolism, and full of metaphor word play... took me 3 reads to find out all of them... (or what I hope as all of them...)



    If you want to read a story to improve on character tone, I'll go with Iveechan's story. With the exception to Kay who got the "perfect character" (which Iveechan knew already from what she posted in the story), all the characters are unique in its own way, with a unique voice of their own. It is also a must-read for anyone who wants to write a good Pokemon battle scene. The Pokemon tournament chapters are absolutely amazing in descriptions...

    For atmosphere, yes I'll also agree with Summer's Dying Days... This is where the story structure cooperates with the narration in order to establish a certain tone... not that I got attached to Linoone (I'm sorry that my heart froze =p), but the atmosphere is certainly present.
     

    Frostweaver

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  • @ The Unown Ones

    ...the beast of the night devoured the helpless creatures until there was but one measly star in the night sky. Yet its malice showed itself...
    "Yet" always shows negation. In this statement, "yet" is not needed because the best of the night devouring all other creatures is not an act of kindness to begin with...

    -i think that you should be using a semicolon after "growing cold" but not certain...

    The soles of my jet black feet were slowly growing cold, each of my two paws twitching from the iciness of the mountaintop. My legs, both the jet black bony ankle and the royal blue buff calve felt strangely warm. They hadn?t been stood in the same patch of snow for hours on end. Likewise, my miniscule navy tail, if one would even call it that, felt no chill or tingle across its tiny hairs.
    STRANGE paragraph o.o; first part regarding "feet," "paws and "legs" is very awkward. It's a bit hard to identify which part is which with these terms when we aren't talking about human beings. Really, how does "paws" and "feet" exist on the same creature... just kind of hard. As for the fact that the narrator has been travelling for long distances, it just didn't belong in this paragraph at all. Nothing else in this paragraph relates to this idea, so it's best to save this piece of information for later uses. "Hair" is both singular and plural form already. You can't add a "s" to it.

    -horn is *always* head only. You need to use another word in place of horn there, such as spike.

    ...the two black and bold and the two sagging and blue...
    An obvious sign that you really need to rework the syntax or diction in this sentence to avoid so many uses of "and." This is a completely needless repetition.

    But the wind, breeze or hurricane, still left my mind clueless as to why I was here
    No idea what you're trying to say here, except somehow the narrator is confused as if suffering from an amnesia.

    this mountain, harsh with wind and snow?
    The mountain isn't harsh. The *weather* is harsh, or the condition on the mountain. It's just really awkward there...

    Why was I stood still
    Why was I *standing* still

    -now I *really* start questioning something... Do you actually want "Unown" or Unknown?" O_o; Unown is the Pokemon. Unknown is the word for not knowing (noun or adjective)... Now no readers can really argue against the title, but...

    ... am worthless to everything. I am Unown."

    The being simply said: "No. You are Rukario, not Unown to the world."

    O_o; Now if the speaker is Rukario, why is it calling itself an Unown which is a completely different Pokemon? I *think* that it's a Poke-addict problems with mixing up real words with Pokemon names, like how Caterpie will roll off the tounge easier than saying Caterpillar... However, this is quite a fatal mistake as it resulted in a huge contradiction in terms of identity, which is a major idea in this story...

    -title is quite overused... *unless* you do want to use Unown instead of Unknown. Prepare your arguements/supports ready if you do indeed meant to use Unown instead of unknown purposely in your story in order to claim marks refund.

    -another problem in this story is that it starts off a lot of detailed illustrations of some plausible symbolisms and motif. They keep reapearing, and Rukario keeps mentioning of it. However, they lead readers to nowhere o.o; It will be best to connect all of those literature devices that you started to the major ideas or plot in your story.

    -watch for originality... this is something that's been done plenty of times (even the official Pokemon Movie has Mewtwo doing pretty much the same thing). Besides the fact that this is Rukario being the protagonist, I felt that I've really read this story before...

    -this *isn't* a good oneshot, but it *is* a good prologue to a chaptered fiction. A completed work (oneshot or with chapters) must have a beginning and an end. Now, an end isn't necessarily a resolution, but every story must have an end. Right now it feels really unfinished... =/ Cliffhangers aren't suitable endings.

    -doesn't feel very much like a Pokemon fanfic... but then again, I'll ignore this one for now since you are using Rukario which we know nothing about

    Good Points
    -creative character used
    -motif
    -characterization

    Focuses to Improve On
    -grammar
    -syntax
    -need an ending!

    Title: 2/5
    Grammar Basics: 7/10
    Coherence/Readability: 8/10
    Characterization: 15/20
    Story Structure: 5/15
    Tone/Atmosphere: 9/15
    Diction: 13/20
    Effort/Originality: 10/15
    Lit. Device bonus: +1 (motif)


    Total: 70
     

    Strawberry Delcatty

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  • Chapter 4 of my HMW revision is taking longer than I thought. Sorry if I'm going too slow...

    EDIT: Argh! What is wrong with me?! I didn't think that it'll be taking me THIS long to have the chapter 4. To be honest, I never liked the original chapter 4 that much, but now (in my eyes) it's pure gold compared to what I'm writing.

    I didn't expect that all of chapter 4 would end up being changed.
     
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    Dragonfree

    Teh Spwriter. :3
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  • I posted a new one-shot, Chains. It's my most symbolic piece ever, and I consider it one of my best... *urges everybody to go read it*
     

    Aiya Quackform

    Her High Quackiness
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  • Jedi_Amara said:
    I had a quick scan of it, I'll do a full review later. I just did feedback on Aiya's piece... it ended up being 1500 words including quotes *sweatdrop*
    And you rock for it! Thanks, JA, I appreciate it. Hopefully, the rewrite will be up in a couple days. I have some more rewriting to do, and some of it won't be easy.
     

    Strawberry Delcatty

    Neko daisuki-na no nya!
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  • Chapter 4 of my HMW revision is up. I doubt it's very good, but that's just me. Anyway, read and review please.

    I'll check out Dragonfree's one-shot and some other fics later.
     

    Frostweaver

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  • Mewthreee said:
    the hit series I. C. pokemon is FINALLY here.

    https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=34362

    *eyes burn due to a lack-of-paragraph improperly script formatted fanfic*

    Not that I need to read it to know that it's not going to be a very enjoyable fanfic... just literally need to skim in 10 secs =/ Refer to the basic Pokemon Fanfic Writing FAQ


    I'll be gone for 2 days ^^; Visiting a friend for the Easter holiday
    *wants a hug from Lily* .______.
     

    Lily

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  • *hugs frosty*

    ;; bye! I'm sorry I didn't see this earlier. x_x;

    thanks willow-in-da-wisp. :O
     

    Geometric-sama

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  • Don't worry Neko. Want me to review your fic? That's right, you asked me to didn't you?

    *gives Lily dear a hug to give to Fwosty dear*

    @ Mewthreee: You're not allowed to talk about your own fic as a hit series! XD
     
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    Great. There goes my chance of getting a review.

    I feel so ignored here.

    Join the club :( I think I should redo the first chapter because it might make readers assume my fic is a regular trainer fic, when in fact all the hints to it being a regular trainer was actually making fun of the Anime, but then I relized people actually do it because they have no original ideas
     

    Avegaille

    Misaka Mikoto > you.
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  • >I'm trying to revise my fic and I jsut did.... maybe I should advertise it on my sig for people to read and give out comments at least....
     

    Flatulus

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    Destiny of Understanding is now up to chapter 6, some reveiws this time will be nice but not vital as i already know the lastest chapter is bad and the fic on a whole is considered bad by FrostWeaver... it's just be nice to be reminded of why I write it...
     
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