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...How does anyone get reviews on FF? O.o XD
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I get more reviews on FF than anywhere else. XD Dunno why, though.
 
Depends on what you write about. When I posted my fanficiton on there, my friend posted a one-shot a few hours about ash 3 years after the end of the anime, involving some hinted romance with misty in the summary.

Within an hour he had twice the views. Of course, I gave him a review, but it wasn't a very good one so I think I drove off some readers...
 
Yeah, the anime-centric stories tend to get the most reviews, and the shipping or romance ones the most of any of those. Just the demographic of the people trawling for 'fics, I think.
 
When I first started writing in the little realm of PE2K, I was a little cocky. Just a little. XD I could still take crit, the problem was I didn't get any. So I spent quite a while thinking my fic was quite good. It wasn't. XD
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I have never gotten a good review there, ironically enough XD I kinda expected my fics to be liked better in PE2K than Serebii, but nearly everyone who reviewed it called it "meh." I try and be modest with my fics too, I rarely get harsh critisicm which I do wish I get more of, but I refuse to think I'm a good writer yet. I always feel there's something wrong whenever I write at the end, which is what keeps my head from inflating too much. But alas, I still deem myself the Best Writer in Serebii.

...How does anyone get reviews on FF? O.o XD
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The Breezy method. Go out into the streets and threaten to kill people's children unless they review so that you can rub it in IceKing's face =(


And I, too, hate the Word Limit
 
Meh. XD

Yeah, word limits are VERY annoying. Especially when you are trying to find good places to cut off, and it is still too long. XD

The Breezy way? Might give that a try... *prepares cookie gun*

...I guess not many people are interested in evil bunnies, then? XD I think it was the lead up. It took seven pages to get to the exciting part. @.@ XD
 
Yeah, I hate word limits too. I did not liked it when I had to put "Take Fifty Five" into two posts because the story is suppose to be a one shot and that looked like as if it can break into two parts or something. Plus, I am afraid I am breaking the rules in making it double post. (roll eyes).

Oh, and katiekitten, I am excited in evil bunnies:).
 
The Breezy method. Go out into the streets and threaten to kill people's children unless they review so that you can rub it in IceKing's face =(
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I detect jealously. Don't hate because all of your reviews combined at ff.net times two will never beat the number of reviews HLBMA got. :P

I kid, I kid.
 
XD

Bay: *hugs* =D

Bunnies will take over the world someday, you know. *nodnod* XD

Oh my goodness, am I going to be up late tonight. I have to write a whole story for tomorrow. O.O I knew I shouldn't have put it off all weekend, but I did... And now I have to write a whole trial. XD
 
XD A piece of homework I put off all weekend. It is all finished now, even though I stayed up to five to complete it... XD
 
Hee, well, you have been gone so long that I would think you had forgotten ;)

Anyhow, how long in pages do everyones chapters seem to be overall?
Mine lately have been eight pages, up from what use to be my normal five. I am pretty proud about it to...
 
^_^ Strawberry_Delcatty, Sonic Fanfictions are cool. The plot seems interesting, and I would read it for sure!

n.n I just posted the first chapter to my FMA Fanfic. xP Anome, I would like to read yours if you post it! Then you can read mine!!! <3 A link to the thread in in my siggy. (Um, yeah. It contains Spoilers!)
 
Wells, for Phoenix, they seem to average around seven. :)

I'm hoping the evil bunny king of dooms ten pages was just a one off... O.O XD
 
Wrote a tory once where I had bunnies that spewed acid taking over the world. Well, not really on the last part. They just looked so cute. :3

If you get one review from the top (heh) rater on FF.net, and they rip apart your fic, then no one else is willing to review it. Even if you write the most crap-tascular shipping fic evar, then you are going to get reviews. A lot of them.

But then you have to ask the question: Would you rather have one review that teaches you? Or thirty million reviews that are brainless?

As for chapters' lengths: Hand-written, I used to get around twenty-four. oO They were long... Now, I get around ten, but that's for my prologue, which has been written over and over. I have yet to finish a chapter. The one-shot I just finished is four pages typed. The longest one-shot I have ever written was sixty pages hand-written. Still have to type it up... But first I have to find it.

Nothing really to add. I haven't been keeping up with my reviewing duties. XD
 
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If you get one review from the top (heh) rater on FF.net, and they rip apart your fic, then no one else is willing to review it.
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Teaching you is all well and good but I think that is just wrong.
The views of one person should not stop everyone else from reviewing.
And what if you fix everything that was wrong and people still judge you by that review?
Some people read reviews more than they do their stories on there, odd but true.

Truth be told, I'd rather get a mix of helpful and not so much reviews than one review that dooms me to be under
the bad side of 'The Grand High Lord Or Lady Of FF.NET' forevermore, no matter how hard I work :P.
I've seen it happen before to some authors, it is not pretty.
Reviews are there so you can get everyones idea of how your fic could be better,
not a single persons idea (which may or may not be as grand as they make it out to be)
 
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I'd rather have one review that teaches me something or means something to me in some way than a bunch of mindless reviews. While it's always encouraging to know that people are reading and taking the time to give me a shout-out, I honestly do like better the reviews that show that a person has really taken the time to look closely at the story, even if that means that they find the ugly things lurking therein. A review that teaches you something doesn't always have to be a negative one, either--if someone can tell you in detailed terms what exactly "worked" for your 'fic, that's at least as valuable.

In terms of chapter length, lately the chapters have been in the low teens for Clouded Sky and close to ten for Vanishing Point. There was a period where I was writing chapters of around twenty-five pages for Clouded Sky; I will never, ever try to do five-way melee battles in 'fic again. @_@
 
My chapters tend to vary a lot in length, going anywhere from two pages to twenty, really...

For no particular reason, I feel like analyzing the length of every chapter of The Quest for the Legends version ILCOE right now.

Chapter 1: Five pages
Chapter 2: Nine and a half pages
Chapter 3: Four pages
Chapter 4: Four pages
Chapter 5: Thirteen pages
Chapter 6: Twelve pages
Chapter 7: Eight pages
Chapter 8: Nine pages
Chapter 9: Nine pages
Chapter 10: Sixteen pages
Chapter 11: Three and a half pages
Chapter 12: Seven pages
Chapter 13: Seven and a half pages
Chapter 14: Six pages
Chapter 15: Six pages
Chapter 16: Four pages
Chapter 17: Six pages
Chapter 18: Eight and a half pages
Chapter 19: Six pages
Chapter 20: Seven and a half pages
Chapter 21: Six pages
Chapter 22: Seventeen pages
Chapter 23: Eighteen pages
Chapter 24: Six and a half pages
Chapter 25: Nine pages
Chapter 26: Nineteen pages
Chapter 27: Nine pages
Chapter 28: Six pages
Chapter 29: Eight pages
Chapter 30: Five and a half pages
Chapter 31: Thirteen pages

In total, that's 268 and a half pages, and the average is approximately eight and two thirds of a page. The median would be seven and a half pages. It's interesting how chapters five, six, ten, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-six and thirty-one are quite a bit ahead of the rest - chapter six, the shortest of them, is twelve pages, while the longest of the others, chapter two, is only nine and a half...

But recently, my chapters have been longer than they have been overall, as seen by the fact that if we only take the latest ten chapters, 21 to 31, they are 117 pages together (44% of the whole fic, despite being less than a third of the number of chapters), and 11.7 pages on average (although the median is only 8.5).
 
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