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How do you treat people when you review? Friendly, serious, or straight to the point? I'm pretty sure we've had this topic before, but no reason not to answer it again. I'm always friendly. There's no reason to dissuade people into not writing... You need to be gentle, but still point out what issues you notice. Most of all you need to encourage. I'd say I'm pretty nice when I review. |
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How do you treat people when you review? Friendly, serious, or straight to the point? It really depends on the author's attitude, honestly. If they're not acting like arrogant know-it-alls, I'm typically friendly and courteous. I will reciprocate asshattery, however. |
I never show my family my fanfiction. >_< Mum and Dad would make me stop writing, and my sister would a) laugh and b) not get it (which would be weird, considering that she basically does it herself. I vividly recall a story about one 'Harriet Potter' . . . eh.)
ANYWAY SOLOVINO YOU'RE OKAY WE WERE ALL WORRIED ;_; I mean, sure, I heard from various people that you were alright, but it's nice to see you again in person (?). |
w00t! 600 pages of people being random!
Well when I review I do one liners if I like it 70-85% I'll do a long bit about why I like it if I liked it 85-100% If I didn't like it I'll write a bit on why I didn't like it, but if it's really bad, like 10% bad, I might not even dignify it with a response. I once saw somebody posted a "Story" which was only 1 paragraph long. Well actually it was 3 sentences so that shouldn't even be counted as a paragraph... Anyways, I'm working on something new. I've been toying around with the characters and plot in my mind, and I've started taking some initiative. I'm sending some rough (very rough) drafts to my editor to see what she thinks. I also tried doing an RP with it, but alterego never likes my ideas. It's going to be called "The God Project". I hope you all like it! With all regards, -ChrisTom |
But see, CT, the fact is that here, one-line reviews are generally frowned upon as they're not terribly useful to the author. All it tells them is that someone read their story but didn't want to bother telling them what they thought about it in too much detail.
I've had my share of them, and it's rather irksome. I suggest either review fully, or just skip the story if you don't feel you can write more than a line. |
600 pages? My computer is currently on page 750.
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When I review, I'm far too nice and sugar-coating for my own taste. I try to be more straightforward, I try to be more, y'know, blunt, but in the end, I just can't do it. I'm a wuss. That's just how it is. v_v;
Also, yeah. I almost rather take nothing than one-liners. I mean, it's not that hard to write a full paragraph. It's not like I'm asking for a ten-page essay on my fic or something. Also, I do have a Skype account. I also have a headset to use said account. The only problem is that I'm pretty much scared senseless of speaking any English to a native speaker, although I've recently had some training with my British friends. So, while I would probably join the fun for old times' sake, I'd probably be waaayyyyyyy more silent than I have ever been here, even counting the six months during which I didn't say a word over here. >_> |
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Since I'm feeling generous. Bold topic. My PokemansOCs, let me show you them! Yeah, just show off any OCs that you've created so some of us might get interested in reading your fanfic. Non-Pokemon OCs welcome. A short bio, RP style, would also benefit you. |
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Also An-chan and Mizan, I share your pain, English is not my first language. I've been actually told by some people (txteclipse here, for example) that they're surprised with my level of written English after they learn I'm Latam, but my spoken English on the other hand seems to be getting worse with time, as I have no one to talk (good) English to. A FFL cabal like that of "24" Season 7 may help me with that and most surely it will be fun, but I'll leave the choice between screams of agony and simple words to you all :D ¿Bold Topic? I'll wait for someone to post theirs first in the meanwhile I collect the one I've been was working on these last months. It's the only notable human character in Sixth anyways, and that being Pokémon-centric there's not much to say in the story, so a sort of Bio here may be the most proper way to introduced the character. |
My OCs, let me show you them! Yeah, just show off any OCs that you've created so some of us might get interested in reading your fanfic. Non-Pokemon OCs welcome. A short bio, RP style, would also benefit you.
So far, all of my characters have been OCs. As in, eeevvvery single one of them. Of course, I did write a set of tiny stories about Bebe, but seeing as how she has a total of three lines or so in the whole canon, I'mma go ahead and call her an OC, too. I mean, yeah, I've taken her name, her profession, her accent in the Japanese versions, all the three lines she utters, and her sprite (which is the battle girl one, wutwut) and formed all that into a coherent character. In an upcoming fic, she will be featured as a major character together with Roark. So, yeah. In the future, not all of my characters will be OCs, but for the while being, they all are. And I'm not posting profiles for Cimi, Adan, Rora, Jack, Mari, Lilian, April, Raymond, Sora-chan, Usa-chan, Suzanne, Marcus, and the rest of the cast in my three big fics. And that's leaving out the one-shots I've done. *shakes head* Nooope. It would take me forever and end up in tl;dr. Also, I don't think a mere character profile should be the thing that gets you to read a given fic. While I do think characters are very important, the whole finesse of them comes up when they interact with other characters. Thus, only showing you one wouldn't do me much good. But, to get you interested: Jack Killigan is a ten-year-old boy from the region Voitto. He's just like your average ten-year-old kid in the Pokémon world: he wants to have some adventures, he has endless amounts of energy, he loves Pokémon, he thinks he can manage by himself, he's pretty unlucky, and his dad is dead. You know, the standard stuff. His mother, however, doesn't think he can manage by himself. So, when he leaves, his mum April - who doesn't really a know a thing about Pokémon or a trainer's journey - comes with him. Jack does not think that's funny, but, frankly, it is. |
. . . I've never seen a fic where the main character's mother goes along with them before. Wow.
Also, I've come up with a random plot bunny that I'm gonna write after Artificial. A teenage boy with another person's personality stuck in his head (kind of complicated - they share the brain and converse via thoughts etc. Problem is, she hates his guts and is a sadistic bitc you-know what.) has to save the universe from Father Time gone wrong (his left hand has turned all tentacle-y). Yes, the concept for this came from a sketch I was doing in History today. Everybody nearby was like 'lolwut'. Actually, it goes back earlier. I was in Classics, and I was about to start drawing his left hand. Someone suggested I give him a hook for a hand, so I jokingly did. Somebody else was like 'Hey, that looks like a tentacle!' (it kinda did, tbh) so I added several more. Also, he wears a hood that's completely shaded in underneath except for two dots I erased, so now he looks like a Shy Guy from Mario. Hehe. And he has this epic staff-thing with a clock on top that has glowy Roman numerals floating around it. So yeah, that's the ridiculously long and pointless backstory for where that came from. The other half of the concept comes from a long-running joke (?) between myself and a few of my friends (real and imaginary). |
My PokemansOCs, let me show you them! Yeah, just show off any OCs that you've created so some of us might get interested in reading your fanfic. Non-Pokemon OCs welcome. A short bio, RP style, would also benefit you.
Umm. Technically all of my characters are OC's, of course barring physical design when it comes to pokémon. I think. Yeah. I have drawrings of a key! Sorry for epic bigness. Spoiler:
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The concept of a mother trailing a trainer is simply TOO funny to not read; especially for those of us with similar mothers. :laugh:
I popped at the first two chapters, and I'm already chuckling. Anyways, I really like reading stories with OCs, as long as they're not archetypal characters. They're what make fics interesting because we can't really fashion new settings or new Pokemon. Not to mention everything that has been possible to do, the canon characters have probably ALREADY done. |
My PokemansOCs, let me show you them! Yeah, just show off any OCs that you've created so some of us might get interested in reading your fanfic. Non-Pokemon OCs welcome. A short bio, RP style, would also benefit you.
Alright, so, I have four major OCs. I have others, but these are the ones that are most important: Leah is my main MC. She’s fifteen and after being pursued (read: drafted) by her grandmother into the Mentor Program, she’s forced to follow two ten-year-old brats on their Pokemon journey and look after them. Problem is, she’s definitely not fond of training or Pokemon, and with only her old Sandshrew by her side, she has to put up with everything that comes with being a trainer. Danger, and all. Ed is one of the kids that Leah has to take care of, and he’s your genetic kid. Enthusiastic and excited, he’s not going to let a bitter Mentor or an apathetic Paras prevent him from being the best trainer ever. Ally is the other kid, and she’s surprisingly quiet and shy for a child. She’s not as ambitious as Ed, but she also wants to do her best, even if her disobedient Voltorb would rather shock her then obey. Blue is my main villain MC. Not much is known about him, but he’s been hired to retrieve mysterious artifacts known as the Plates, that have been hidden by the Pokemon League in the loneliest places in the world. His loyalties are unknown, but that won’t stop him from killing anyone that gets in his way. |
My PokemansOCs, let me show you them! Yeah, just show off any OCs that you've created so some of us might get interested in reading your fanfic. Non-Pokemon OCs welcome. A short bio, RP style, would also benefit you.
Like others all of my characters are OCs, but I'll only go into detail about the major characters here. Shrike Flamestar: Spoiler:
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I would normally write something on Havoc here but I'm tired and stuff so yeah. That's it for now. |
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Also, your new plot bunny sounds like this one manga I read a long long time ago. Sadly, it's been so long that I can't remember the name of that manga nor what really happened, but there was a teenage boy with a girl in his head - nowait, was it the other way round? Anyway, they were very much jerks towards each other in the beginning and in the end, they fell in love. I can't remember what their adventure was about, though, so. In any case, I enjoyed that manga a lot, so chances are I'll enjoy your fic, too, when you write it. ^-^ |
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Asides from that, Makoto Shinkai is a genius! Sorry, I just had to get that out. I've just finished watching Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days. I've just finished watching the first episode of 5 Centimetres per Second at it was spectacular. I just love how everything was so detailed and the plot so beautiful. I mean, you didn't even need multi-coloured-hair or anything. Even the washing machine from the first episode was rendered beautifully. To anyone who hasn’t watched any of his works, GOWATCHNAO! And uhh, I’ll answer the bold topic as soon as I place a definite timeline in which my fic is placed in. Does anyone know what year the events of R/S/E’s Gen 3 take place in? |
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I was being serious-ish... Since the timeline of Pokemon has never been canonically stated, I was wondering what you guys could infer would be the time period in which the games take place from the clues that Sol's just pointed out.
NG-137 takes place approximately 10 years or so after RSE in Hoenn. Also, who's watched 5 Centimetres per Second. Honestly, that beat Grave of the Fireflies as the saddest anime I've ever seen in years... |
I have not seen 5cm/sec. but check out Time of Eve and Pale Cocoon. The story and art for each is simply unmatched.
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My PokemansOCs, let me show you them! Yeah, just show off any OCs that you've created so some of us might get interested in reading your fanfic. Non-Pokemon OCs welcome. A short bio, RP style, would also benefit you.
Only have one that has a background fleshed out enough to do this, though several characters in my fiction are OC's. Lisa K. Northwood Spoiler:
And that is probably more information than you wanted :P As for timeline, the events of mine span from late 2006 until late 2007. Haven't seen 5cm/sec. I am currently obsessed with Pretty Cure and Fresh Pretty Cure, which features magical girls. So, yeah. |
New bold question! One that’s certainly not taken from Serebii. <_<
Do you plan to become an author in real life? |
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Still, I'm one for trying new things so I'm gonna get me a copy of Time of Eve. Do you plan to become an author in real life? Yes, alongside my aspirations to be Prime Minister and to get a double doctorate in Physics and Literature. Which are true by the way... EDIT: 15,000th REPLY!!! |
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As for my OCs, um maybe at a later time. |
Which is how I commemorate it by celebrating it a post late. :P
Confused by the fact that the first post doesn't register on the forum view... and your post is 15002 in the thread, but 15001 in forum view. |
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