I don't dare step foot in SPPf's fanfiction section, in the meantime, as many fanfics there, from what I hear, are very similar to one another anyway.
Well, it was that badly phrased line which made you seem hypocritical and detracted from your overall argument. ^.^;; But yeah, generally, judging on the basis of what you've seen as opposed to what is present isn't a good idea... that was the overall point of your posts, right? :3
Well, if what she's seen and what's present are one in the same, then what? She shouldn't say anything because it might offend people who worry they're guilty of the same thing?
Not to beat a dead horse (although I do love doing that), I don't really think what Jax said was that far off. SPPf has a few good fics, and very much copycat-ing... which is good for me, because at this point I can pretty much copy-and-paste huge chunks of concrit, but I digress.
I think SPPf's biggest issue is how similar everything is... even when technicalities are different, there are giant, sweeping problems that almost every author has, because people stick to formulas that they think/see work, and when one person ventures to try something new and good, people begin copying that heedless of it's problems (and even when something is good, it has problems). So you end up with 39239 perversions of a good technique, and then someone else tries something new... and teh cycle starts over. (Remeber when Syra was popular? Everyone and their grandma wrote in purple prose, a bad habit many of the authors there STILL retain. Now, Scrap is in-vogue.) SPPf has its own kind of pop culture, and a lot of the authors there stick to what everyone says is good rather than kind of finding it themselves. It's why SPPf satire is so effective... it's hits almost everyone.
Also, I'm sure Jax wasn't saying, "Every plot is exactly the same," and neither am I (although that can sometimes be true as well). People do copy a lot, though, and usually they copy problems as well as good habits. And, for some reason, the problems are what spreads most. It's weird.
/rant
EDIT: Also: there's some disambiguiation of the word 'copy' here: I don't mean plagiarism (although some people don't mind that, apparently, and I have seen it), I mean of technique.
EDIT II: I'm also not saying I'm awesome. I have many problems, but purple prose and chunk description (eg) are not two of them.
As a reviewer, what is your absolute least favorite explanation for a character that understands Pokemon outside of "miraculously able to for no reason at all"?
IM TEH AUTHORZ WHATEVA I SAY GOEZ.
How do you choose your characters' teams?
I don't pre-plan teams, so I just look at where the character is geographically, and then see what, logically, would be the best/most likely pokemon for them to catch. xP
What do you think the easiest tense to work with is?
EDIT: My bad! My brain regestered tense as person! Oops *shot*
In which case, past tense, obviously. xP
*shrug*