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Age 30
Australia...jealous? XD
Seen April 18th, 2006
Posted August 18th, 2005
57 posts
18.2 Years
lol...Frostweaver'll be busy if there are heaps and heaps of people who want their fic reviewed...XD my fic has no reviewers, except from SPPF...

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Dragonfree

Teh Spwriter. :3

Age 33
Female
Iceland
Seen February 9th, 2020
Posted November 28th, 2012
1,290 posts
19.1 Years
As for reviewing a non-Pokemon fanfic, sure I don't see why not provided that I finish up with the 2 Pokemon ones I got right now first.
*pokes* Umm, I did reply to your PM...
~Butterfree/Dragonfree/antialiasis of The Cave of Dragonflies

Still not going to sprite for your fangame. Sorry, but I don't really sprite or give out permission for people to use my fake Pokémon anymore.
Age 31
Kingdom of Wei
Seen August 10th, 2005
Posted August 10th, 2005
224 posts
18 Years
Mine has no reviews on it either. I don't care who replies to mine, I just want someone to do it. I'm starting to think that people just don't like it. So, to anyone who does relpy to it, many thanks.
"Love- The double-sided blade that can make or break you."
Stop making requests for one blooming sprite so you can put it in your signatures. That's why we have sprite shops!!. It also clutters Home of the Sprites and encourages newer, less experienced spriters/members to be lazy and do the same thing. If you agree with this, copy and past it into your signature.

(Many thanks Yukito)
Age 41
On a stage, acting out the nightmares of a giant space cockroach
Seen December 7th, 2006
Posted November 17th, 2006
594 posts
18.2 Years
Mine has no reviews on it either. I don't care who replies to mine, I just want someone to do it. I'm starting to think that people just don't like it. So, to anyone who does relpy to it, many thanks.
When it comes to fanfiction, you can't let a lack of reviews get to you - especially around here. I'm more guilty than most, but I'm sure a lot of people just don't read too many other fanfics than their own and the ones they've been reading for a while. When and if you do get reviews, you have to be grateful for what you can get. ^^; And you can't really take any of it to heart - even the good ones. Letting a good review give you a swelled head can be just as damaging as letting a bad review spoil your experience. I look at it this way: write your fiction for the pure joy of writing. Don't worry what other people think. If you have a lot of fun writing it, then all the rest will fall into place. But if you're writing just to receive reviews, the only advice I could give you is to give your public what you're pretty sure they want. Read a few of the most popular stories; get to know what people really like, and just go from there. But I wouldn't recommend doing it that way anyway. I would think that would take all the fun out of it. :(

Btw, I left you a review on your thread. Go read it if you have ten minutes to spare, lol.
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Frostweaver

Ancient + Prehistoric

Age 34
Male
Canada
Seen September 11th, 2016
Posted July 30th, 2016
8,246 posts
19.7 Years
Mine has no reviews on it either. I don't care who replies to mine, I just want someone to do it. I'm starting to think that people just don't like it. So, to anyone who does relpy to it, many thanks.
Fanfic reviews don't come to you. You go to them.

I'm certain that there's no reviews because you aren't the one on the active side to hunt down reviews (yes, that's how it works anywhere but fanfiction.net) or there's a definite need for improvement of a better title...
Age 41
On a stage, acting out the nightmares of a giant space cockroach
Seen December 7th, 2006
Posted November 17th, 2006
594 posts
18.2 Years
Fanfic reviews don't come to you. You go to them.

I'm certain that there's no reviews because you aren't the one on the active side to hunt down reviews (yes, that's how it works anywhere but fanfiction.net)
I don't understand... what do you mean hunt down reviews? Do you mean we should, like, PM people who've reviewed other fics and beg them to review our own? That sounds awfully spammy to me. :(

Or do you mean we should go read a bunch of other fanfics and write reviews for them in the hopes that they might review ours back? *A kind of "I'll scratch your back if you review my fic" kinda deal*

Either way I'd feel kinda silly. I want my fic to be reviewed honestly, and in my own idealistic way of thinking, part of that is in their [the readers'] actually having the interest to take the initiative themselves. Have I been looking at this the wrong way?
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Lady Demoonica Darkmoon

Shiny Hunters Club Co-Owner

Age 40
Female
West Virginia, USA
Seen March 10th, 2017
Posted March 1st, 2017
912 posts
18.3 Years
However, that allows you the access to win whatever awards they got (hopefully they got some) over in other writing.
However, I'm very sure that if the story is as long as you've claimed it to be, 3 hour is definitely not enough... It takes me 3 hours to do a review on perhaps 2500 words worth of story...
The place is fairly DEAD I'm afraid, so no awards or such. I have had two lovely reviews though, I thank you both. As for it's length, (100,000 / 2500 = 40, 40 x 3 = 120) set aside 120 hours then, because it's about 100,000 words in length. Uh, at that rate I'd say I'll see the review sometime near Cristmas. *laughs*

EDIT: I just posted a pokemon fic I wrote back in 1998. It's just been on my computer and I thought 'Why not?'

Casual Billy

Wargreymon: Miracle Mega

Seen May 12th, 2006
Posted December 29th, 2005
217 posts
18.2 Years
Billy: Can you say (Billy holds up a sign with the following words written on it)"new Worlds Away chapter?!"

Audience: ...

Billy: Of course you can't! Who can talk in italics?!

Audience: We're un-amused

Billy: Really? What'd you all think about the last chapter?

Audience: (Loud collective yawn)

Billy: What? You all are crazy. That one introduced a new character, had some comedy, and the beginning of a battle at the end which i guess is kinda like a cliffy ending. How can you be...

Audience: We're un-affected.

Billy: Whatever. New chapter's out y'all. If you liked the last one (I'm assuming I have a closet reader at least) *Billy opens up a nearby closet to find someone inside reading another book* I guess those are the kind of closet readers I get. Anyway, this one has a battle in it, some character development of this new girl and a further development. Here are what other reviewers (from serebii) have said about this chapter:

Whee, I liked this chapter. Good mix of both battle and character devolepment
Pretty good. That seemed like quite a bizarre conversation between Sarah and Jack there^^. Hehe.
Well, that's a definate cliffy...great chappie, lookin' forward to reading the next one!
Oooooooh! Very interesing. This was not what I expected, but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. ^^

Your vocaubulary and grammar is excellent, as are your descriptions. It all has a very cinematic feel to it, especially with the music.
Giovanni describes your fic quite well:

Marvelous, just marvelous....

I can honestly say that I loved this story. It isn't as dark and dramatic like L.O.A (which isn't a bad thing; I really love gloomy stories) but that's the hidden charm. The lighthearted tone of the story is a really nice change (and many people prefer to read stories like that). The plot also kept me very interested all the way. I noticed there's more humor here, which I'm grateful for.
You heard 'em, it's good stuff. Help me make it even better by giving me your feedback and criticisms. I really think the story gets a WHOLE LOT better in chapters 6+ than the ones which preceeded those chapters and it continues to supercede this quality as the fic progresses. So check it out!
convo snip-it of the moment:

billy5772: not worth responding to
anonymous: You responded though.
anonymous: Thumbs up for flawless logic.
billy5772: so. i can do things not worth doing, can't I?
billy5772: case in point: i talk to you all the time
(billy5772 is an alternate screen name of mine)

Age 41
On a stage, acting out the nightmares of a giant space cockroach
Seen December 7th, 2006
Posted November 17th, 2006
594 posts
18.2 Years
No awards because no one participates in them, dammit! *points at Fanfic of the week and Frostweaver's standard of excellence thinigies* You can get those if you want to... ><

Stop comparing you idiots or I'll have to give you some warnings! XP
Well, this may earn me a warning, but I'm gonna post it anyway. XD As of right now, here's how it stands:

Stats:
Other Forum:
I got 1 review, and it sounded suspiciously like a member I know here. XP
Here:
I got three reviews, although they were from two reviewers. :P

Calculation:
Other Forum = 1 - (1 Probably didn't count) = 0 = Nobody there reads N00b fics = Nobody there likee me. ;_;
PokeCommunity = 2 (+ 1 for return reviewer! XD) = 3 = Peoples here are open-minded = Me gots warm fuzzy feeling. *^_^*

Conclusion:
Nobody there likee me < Me gots warm fuzzy feeling --->
$PPf < PokeCommunity

How's that for a comparison? :P
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Is there a Treeland? If so, there.
Seen March 13th, 2013
Posted April 22nd, 2011
454 posts
18.7 Years
Fanfic awards are mostly based off popularity anyways. Some fics should win a category of course, but it's most likely that they got a few votes because their well known. Heh.

As for reviewers, you run after them, jump on them, hog tie them and shove your story in the face. People have been doing that for years. XP
Bittertown
Seen September 2nd, 2009
Posted December 28th, 2008
7,901 posts
19.7 Years
Well, this may earn me a warning, but I'm gonna post it anyway. XD As of right now, here's how it stands:

Stats:
Other Forum:
I got 1 review, and it sounded suspiciously like a member I know here. XP
Here:
I got three reviews, although they were from two reviewers. :P

Calculation:
Other Forum = 1 - (1 Probably didn't count) = 0 = Nobody there reads N00b fics = Nobody there likee me. ;_;
PokeCommunity = 2 (+ 1 for return reviewer! XD) = 3 = Peoples here are open-minded = Me gots warm fuzzy feeling. *^_^*

Conclusion:
Nobody there likee me < Me gots warm fuzzy feeling --->
$PPf < PokeCommunity

How's that for a comparison? :P
That one's fine... At least that one's reasonable... XD

Pocket Monsters Special!
Age 37
California
Seen August 20th, 2006
Posted July 17th, 2006
752 posts
18.4 Years
I'm thinking about putting up part of chapter 1 of Deepest Wishes up already, but I'm wondering whether or not that's a good idea. I'm trying to avoid having a chapter go over the 20,000 character limit, but I'm also trying to avoid rushing my chapters like I did with HMW.

I'm also thinking about going to update daily over the summer so that my story can constantly stay fresh. Then again, there's going to be my new version of HMW as well as another fic I'm working on called Feline Symphony, and those would probably get updated a lot as well. I REALLY don't want to bug people to beta read on a daily basis, so I'll proofread them myself. Rest assured that if daily updates DO happen for all three stories, at least ONE chapter will be up before midnight that day.

What do you guys think I should do?


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Bittertown
Seen September 2nd, 2009
Posted December 28th, 2008
7,901 posts
19.7 Years
Fanfic awards are mostly based off popularity anyways. Some fics should win a category of course, but it's most likely that they got a few votes because their well known. Heh.

As for reviewers, you run after them, jump on them, hog tie them and shove your story in the face. People have been doing that for years. XP
Yep, that's true...

I get less reviews in the poetry forum when I bled and sweat to write them... then to see crappy poems get these other reviews... v.v

Pocket Monsters Special!
Age 41
On a stage, acting out the nightmares of a giant space cockroach
Seen December 7th, 2006
Posted November 17th, 2006
594 posts
18.2 Years
Fanfic awards are mostly based off popularity anyways. Some fics should win a category of course, but it's most likely that they got a few votes because their well known. Heh.

As for reviewers, you run after them, jump on them, hog tie them and shove your story in the face. People have been doing that for years. XP
Well... I haven't really been around PC long enough to be popular yet. -_-;... And I don't really care about winnin' no contests. I just wanna feel like my readers are enjoying themselves when they read my stuff... But I guess I'll swallow my pride and give it a try...

*Takes deep breath*

Go read my Fic, you entertainment-deprived, pathetic peoples!!!!1

Okie-dokey! ^_^
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Casual Billy

Wargreymon: Miracle Mega

Seen May 12th, 2006
Posted December 29th, 2005
217 posts
18.2 Years
I'm strangely compelled by that message. I should try it too.

oh. I'm in the quick reply box. No giant letters for me. I'm sad that I'm too lazy to just copy this and click post reply...and i just lost interest in describing the process I'm too lazy to do...hmmm...

Maybe this will be just as effective:

READ MY FIC YOU PEOPLES! IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, THEN TELL ME WHY AND I'LL GIVE YOU YOUR TIME BACK...EETNURAUG SUGOB.
convo snip-it of the moment:

billy5772: not worth responding to
anonymous: You responded though.
anonymous: Thumbs up for flawless logic.
billy5772: so. i can do things not worth doing, can't I?
billy5772: case in point: i talk to you all the time
(billy5772 is an alternate screen name of mine)

Is there a Treeland? If so, there.
Seen March 13th, 2013
Posted April 22nd, 2011
454 posts
18.7 Years
Actually, you don't have to be at a place for a long time to become "popular" on a forum. You can just talk to a lot of people or be well-known on another site.

Btw Neko (can I call you that? Maybe I shouldn't; we have a Niko already anyways. :P Plus, I know a few people have heart attacks when I don't type ALL of their usernames), posting daily can be both good and bad. Readers that are hooked onto your fic will love you since you're updating quickly, but some might not. For some odd reason, people like me hate it when people update quick status. Don't ask us why (least not me anyways) for we do not know hehe.

Speaking of character limit, what is the character limit here? Some of my short chapters need to be split in half sometimes. o0

Edit: Aw, I wanna scream blind fury too.

READ MY FIC DAMMIT!

^_^ Nah, you don't have to. I just wanna to say that. I already have a lot of reviews for Who Shot Brendan Birch anyways.

Casual Billy

Wargreymon: Miracle Mega

Seen May 12th, 2006
Posted December 29th, 2005
217 posts
18.2 Years
With the posting daily thing: Yeah, sometimes it can turn potential readers off because it seems like they can never catch up. While I'm writing a fic, I usually wait an average of 5-7 days before posting a new chapter. Here, it's been kinda difficult to delay updating though as I'm merely translating a fic that's already completed onto the boards here. I posted 1 chapter on the 16th and another like an hour ago. But that was after a month and a half of nothing though, so it evens out.
convo snip-it of the moment:

billy5772: not worth responding to
anonymous: You responded though.
anonymous: Thumbs up for flawless logic.
billy5772: so. i can do things not worth doing, can't I?
billy5772: case in point: i talk to you all the time
(billy5772 is an alternate screen name of mine)

Age 36
Seen February 14th, 2012
Posted February 1st, 2009
446 posts
18.7 Years
Fanfic awards are mostly based off popularity anyways. Some fics should win a category of course, but it's most likely that they got a few votes because their well known. Heh.
exactly. Recently on.... a certain forum.... I suffered a humiliating loss in a contest. My Kiryuu, my loveable and very deep talking lizard, was nominated for best Pokemon antagonist. There was only one other nomination, who didn't seem very good at that, I thought I had that prize in the bag. Instead, Kiryuu loses to a Lugia that's barely around for a single chapter and seems confused on hell on what its intentions are (it wants revenge on its cousin, it was lonely for its cousin, what does it want?). I didn't end up winning the other awards I was nominated for neither, and for that matter, just ONE person nominated me at all. That's why these popularity awards can be such a bad thing. Overrated fics get all the credit, well-done fics keep getting overlooked because they only have some d*mn closet readers supporting them. That's why I love this forum so much. I don't need to rely on waiting for some loyal reader to come up and spread the word about my fic. Instead, this place has a great, seemingly-unbiased reviewer and fanfiction of the weeks doing that. It really makes me feel appreciate, so appreciated that I feel no need to shout out to read my fic like others before me did. Of the four forums I currently post PMC at, this seems like one of my favorites.

Frostweaver

Ancient + Prehistoric

Age 34
Male
Canada
Seen September 11th, 2016
Posted July 30th, 2016
8,246 posts
19.7 Years
With the posting daily thing: Yeah, sometimes it can turn potential readers off because it seems like they can never catch up. While I'm writing a fic, I usually wait an average of 5-7 days before posting a new chapter. Here, it's been kinda difficult to delay updating though as I'm merely translating a fic that's already completed onto the boards here. I posted 1 chapter on the 16th and another like an hour ago. But that was after a month and a half of nothing though, so it evens out.
There's always room for updates and revision. There's plenty to do in one week of time... I'll love to write too but then I can just never get the time to do so =/

Updating once a week is, in my own opinion, *THE* most effective rate of updates for an author who haven't covered enough grounds to be "popular." If you got "popular," then keep up that 1 week update rate until you finish that fanfic. Afterwards, start a new one and update even slower for better quality. Since you're popular, you won't be forgotton even if you update say, once every 2 weeks instead. Just be sure to drop by and appear everyday, and you can maintain popularity.

(yes there's a whole world out there with all these ways to improve your writing skills that aren't related to writing itself O.o; Makes me want to take up psychology even more...)

Yes popularity is quite annoying at times... especially in contests like that. =/ But then again... I read the 12 chapters of PMC, and I personally won't nominate Kiryuu for the best antagonist either in a contest for the Best Pokemon Fanfic Antagonist. Possibly because it's still early in the story, but so far my vote goes to either Angelique of Trials of Reluctance, or Ashura from the classical Pokemon MASTERS (who said that the antagonist of the protagonist can't be the protagonist himself? 3/4 of the troubles caused in the story are all started by Ash himself anyway...)

ffotw can be biased at times if both Lily and Oni are busy and they're rushing on that Sunday to nominate something XD; Those times are rare and far inbetween though...
Age 30
Australia...jealous? XD
Seen April 18th, 2006
Posted August 18th, 2005
57 posts
18.2 Years
uh oh...this makes me think that my fic is bad now, since i have a little group of reviewers...

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Sapphire Crystal | Rinrei | Avegaille Spellman
[ Fan Fic | Xanga ]
Proud Member of the Advancedshipping Club
I own Brendan from the Bishie thread...mwa
Age 37
California
Seen August 20th, 2006
Posted July 17th, 2006
752 posts
18.4 Years
There's always room for updates and revision. There's plenty to do in one week of time... I'll love to write too but then I can just never get the time to do so =/

Updating once a week is, in my own opinion, *THE* most effective rate of updates for an author who haven't covered enough grounds to be "popular." If you got "popular," then keep up that 1 week update rate until you finish that fanfic. Afterwards, start a new one and update even slower for better quality. Since you're popular, you won't be forgotton even if you update say, once every 2 weeks instead. Just be sure to drop by and appear everyday, and you can maintain popularity.
However, there are some people out there who have a bad habit of missing deadlines (which I would be guilty of when I don't have chapter 1 of DW up by Saturday as mentioned on the previous page).


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Frostweaver

Ancient + Prehistoric

Age 34
Male
Canada
Seen September 11th, 2016
Posted July 30th, 2016
8,246 posts
19.7 Years
deadlines don't make much of a big deal... as long as it's roughly a week leater ^_^; Deadlines can have a reversed effect by disappointing your readers if you failed to meet them, so in the end deadlines are like a gambling tool... And also for whatever reason that I don't know of, writers who don't have a certain fanbase yet never seem to do too well with a deadline... it just happens but I don't get why... =/

And Sequoia no I don't think that you got the "little group of reviewers" because I haven't heard of your name any place elsewhere.

The only "famous" writer around is Breezy. Who wouldn't know Breezy, the starter of all RS fanfics based on Brendan and May? When the game first came out, Breezy was the only one to write 3 different fanfics all about Brendan and May, and for a while started a whole new trend on Fanfiction.net ^_^ Breezy continued to write after the newgained popularity and managed to maintain it.

Won't say any other people here are exactly "famous" but maybe at most "well known." All the others are mostly famous in 2 forums or so, but only Breezy is known widely across the web, and especially in Fanfiction.net
Age 41
On a stage, acting out the nightmares of a giant space cockroach
Seen December 7th, 2006
Posted November 17th, 2006
594 posts
18.2 Years
deadlines don't make much of a big deal... as long as it's roughly a week leater ^_^; Deadlines can have a reversed effect by disappointing your readers if you failed to meet them, so in the end deadlines are like a gambling tool... And also for whatever reason that I don't know of, writers who don't have a certain fanbase yet never seem to do too well with a deadline... it just happens but I don't get why... =/

And Sequoia no I don't think that you got the "little group of reviewers" because I haven't heard of your name any place elsewhere.

The only "famous" writer around is Breezy. Who wouldn't know Breezy, the starter of all RS fanfics based on Brendan and May? When the game first came out, Breezy was the only one to write 3 different fanfics all about Brendan and May, and for a while started a whole new trend on Fanfiction.net ^_^ Breezy continued to write after the newgained popularity and managed to maintain it.

Won't say any other people here are exactly "famous" but maybe at most "well known." All the others are mostly famous in 2 forums or so, but only Breezy is known widely across the web, and especially in Fanfiction.net
Meh... famousness is relative. When I was going under the Penname Kamejen, I wrote a "famous" DBZ story called "The REAL Story of Bulma Briefs." It got me a very large fanbase, and it was fun an' all, but when I lost interest in DBZ it really sucked. I wouldn't advise going for those long serials if you think there's a possibility you'll lose interest. ^^; But then again, who knows which twist or turn your head will take, lol?
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