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I'm a grammar nazi too ^^; I have to restrain myself from correcting 'your' ? 'you're'

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My family doesn't even KNOW I write fan fics.

As a matter of fact, I keep my fan fics on the internet.
 
Wow, I suddenly feel outta place.

Well anyway, growing up my family was aware of my "imagination" but I was a shy guy who never had the guts to openly display my work to them. Now as far as spelling and grammar goes... I just do what I can to be honest.

When I was growing up, I had to deal with New York's shoddy educational system. They constantly pulled budget-cuts on many schools in the boroughs and we got teachers who worked to their paycheck amount. To sum it up, we didn't learn much of what we were supposed to. (I'm just lucky I had a Mom who wanted to make sure I became something in life and had a few good teachers in those elementary school days.)

I didn?t really take education seriously until late middle school to the rest of my high school days where I found myself opening the book and jotting down/studying the entire book... Later on (I?m not ashamed) in late high school and my first year of college I found some outside help and just buried myself deeper.

So, I'm not too huge an attacker on grammar and spelling to be honest. I know its importance and understand where a lot of you guys are coming from easily? But I still can?t help but find myself gritting my teeth when I see others cracking the whip so harshly on others and actually possessing the nerve to actually question that person's level of intelligence (sometimes even mocking them) just because they weren't as advantaged.
 
@ swearing: I personally am okay with most types of swearing. The only one I have a real problem with is 'f*ck'. It's just so crude-sounding, harsh in the ears. Which is mostly the reason I hate it - other than that I only swear when I get hurt or when I'm really angry or something. I do find it pretty sad when a kid starts swearing though...

@ correcting grammar: XD read my mind! I was reading the driver's handbook the other day and picking out all their mistakes... and next year I'm taking a uni course in editing! *whispers* beware teh grammar... it will take over...
 
with the exception of my little brother, no one knows about what I'm writing. Though, I wonder if my brother currently thinks I'm still continuing this or not, considering I never brought it up around him in ages and he has long-since abandoned the concept.
 
Wow, interesting discussions happen while I'm gone, huh? XD

As far as swearing goes, I don't myself except in private when I'm really ticked off. For example, I've been known to swear at opponents in the Battle Frontier because the AI gest so friggin' lucky... However, I don't believe that younger kids should be exposed to that sort of stuff. In today's society, it's becoming increasingly hard to shelter kids from that kind of thing, though. My high school, at least, is at least an R-rated experience. Just walking down the hall and overhearing conversations makes my ears burn sometimes... Some characters in my 'fic swear, but I try to only have them do so if it reflects on their personality or to adds impact to their emotions.

I'm a big grammar stickler, but I don't correct it in spoken language or anything. I always chuckle to myself when I find mistakes in books or on signs or stuff like that, but usually I refrain from correcting other people unless they ask to be corrected. One of my friends, however, has a program going where whenever one of her friends or family members uses the word "like" incorrectly they have to pay her twenty-five cents. She makes remarkably good money that way.

The only person in my house who knows I write fanfiction is my brother, and he only learned about it fairly recently. I've asked him to proof a couple of scenes for me, and also have the occasional question for him, such as, "Is it possible to put a silencer on a handgun?"
 
Most of the people who know me know I write fanfictions... I have a tendancy to ask random-seeming questions or need a piece of paper to write down ideas, and generally I gives reasons for doing this. Plus whenever people ask me what I've been doing all year I tell 'em the truth. Why not? It's helped me improve.
 
purple_drake said:
Most of the people who know me know I write fanfictions... I have a tendancy to ask random-seeming questions or need a piece of paper to write down ideas, and generally I gives reasons for doing this. Plus whenever people ask me what I've been doing all year I tell 'em the truth. Why not? It's helped me improve.
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Heh, none of my friends are into pok?mon, so they are of little help. Even my brother will give me strange looks when I ask things like, "Does it hurt to have an IV in your arm?"

Of course, he gets all of the most random/gory questions that I have because they're the ones I can't get from resource materials without serious digging.
 
How about... how seriously do you take reivews and concrits?
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So seriously that it makes me cry. ;.;

*spamage*

Actually, opposite of that. I guess seriously enough that I take their advice but don't have whiny fits and cry about it if it's harsh. Enough where you stick to reality and realize that they review(er) isn't trying to break your windows.

*lame*

Yay.
 
I don't get enough of them (concrits), but I look them over carefully if I do. A lot of times they point out things that I miss and really help the story along. Other times, they provide something that I can keep in mind when I'm writing later chapters or doing a rewrite.

Positive reviews just make me happy. And you only need one of those...

And flames make me laugh.
 
Negrek said:
I don't get enough of them (concrits), but I look them over carefully if I do. A lot of times they point out things that I miss and really help the story along. Other times, they provide something that I can keep in mind when I'm writing later chapters or doing a rewrite.

Positive reviews just make me happy. And you only need one of those...

And flames make me laugh.
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I don't get enough, either. Haven't yet gotten a flame (I wonder what it feels like? I'll probably cry or something <_<), nor have I gotten any constructive criticism, well... with the exception of one guy who insisted that my characters actions weren't what *he* would have done. So I laughed at that.

here it is said:
Well first off I'd like to congratulate you for writing a fanfic about Pokemon, I don't see a lot of them. And second, if he were really cold and wet looking for relief from the wind and rain, he'd go into the dumpster. (I would) When you say the Red and white sphere, with the button on its… equator? Dood. You can just say, "centre." Most people are acquainted with the look of a pokeball. I like your description of the Jolteon, very nice; most people just say "the Jolteon popped out of the pokeball" You have good diction and grammar over all. I like your officer, (All I picture is Officer Jenny, hehehe.) Secret base inside a tree? Complete with electricity? O.o I want that tree! Like I said, there's not much that I can criticize other than putting more back information in the first chapter to set the scene for the story. Good work, keep it up.
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I just wanted to say... what if the dumpster was full? What if I didn't want him smelling like garbage (wet is bad enough, but stinky and wet?). I halfway agreed with the fact that most people know what a Pokeball is, but hey... some people don't. As a writer, I like to have people visualize as necessary. Detailed-driven without too much detail, you could say XD.
 
Nekomajo Asunya said:
How about... how seriously do you take reivews and concrits?
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Frostweaver's....very seriously ._. When he gave that stupid script a 30 something...ACK! Depressing...

Otherwise no XD Most people don't know enough about writing >_>;
 
I pretty much beg people to give me a bad review, just so long as I can get anything constructive, anything that could help me improve. Back in my early days of writing that old version on the green forum...... I got absolutely nothing but people talking about how I was getting my narrative format wrong (thankfully, I decided to just ditch narration entirely, since I later found out script's acceptable). I got absolutely nothing in terms of storyline, just people saying it's good (they mentioned liking specific parts of the content, like the hilarity of a character that's introduced later on, but they never said what could be changed for the better), so you can imagine how desperate I'd get. It's a good thing that when I started my scripted version, I decided to make it more wide-spread among forums, because this place, namely Frostweaver, has helped me out a lot.

Although, I do wish more people would look beyond the script style. It was nice to get such praise at first, to hear that I apparently have some kind of unexpectedly rare talent among fanfic writers, but now it's gotten a bit old. Like I keep saying (though, probably should've mentioned at first), this script is really nothing more than a rough draft going towards a visual work, which is why I wish more people could comment on the actual plot, as well as the characterization which I feel I'm struggling with.

Nekomajo..... you say "now" you aren't taking them seriously? What about "then"...... the "then" when you said you were serious about contemplating suicide over Frost's second review of HMW (which, BTW everyone else, is extremely unstable no matter how interested you are in this stuff)? She actually said this, people.
 
pretty much beg people to give me a bad review, just so long as I can get anything constructive, anything that could help me improve.
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Same, same. Flame me as long as you point of all of my mistakes, please!

Heh, I once got a review that was supposed to be a flame... I concritted someone and they didn't like it xD I'll just paste in the review:

I was planning to give you a bad review causr u gave me one but i actually like this story!
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Greatest review of my lfie xD

Frost's second review of HMW (which, BTW everyone else, is extremely unstable no matter how interested you are in this stuff)
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Thank God someone else noticed O.o;;
 
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Frost's second review of HMW (which, BTW everyone else, is extremely unstable no matter how interested you are in this stuff)
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Thank God someone else noticed O.o;;
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Um.... you know I was saying contemplating suicide like that was unstable, not Frost's review, right? The way you quoted just makes it seem otherwise.
 
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