/puts on her robe and wizard hat OOC icon and ranty pants

Right, boys and girls, ladies and gents, I drag myself out from the depths of Gaia Online roleplaying yet again just to present you with another amputation worthy case of OOC. Why haven't I learned yet despite having slipped into LJ RP instead? God only knows. Well, okay, I do, but no one ( Read more... )

Dear fanfic writers,
Sometimes, the summary is just as important as the fanfic itself.

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1. Vary up the style up in your fics. I've noticed that a lot of fics have the same style. It's hard to describe, but they do. Lots of adjectives, lots of descriptions of what characters are doing, no change in the style. Look, in order to make a fic more unique, you need to make your own style. Look at Agatha Christie. She often uses shorter ( Read more... )

Dear ever-increasing number of people using comments on 'The Sora Song' as a means of pimping your Neopets name or exchanging Neopoets information ( Read more... )

As a member of the 18-25 demographic that is shelling out +$20,000 a year to get a formal education, blatantly obvious typos piss me off. A LOT MORE THAN THEY SHOULD ( Read more... )

Just a little tip, Miss Purple-Prose-Fanfic Author Who Happens to Be a Fan of Riku:

Riku does not fight off a rather popular British band whenever Ansem rears his silvery head. He just fights off the darkness.

Thank you!

-Leradny

Edit: I'm not really annoyed when good writers capitalize 'darkness' and, you know, use pronouns. But when a ( Read more... )

FOR THE LOVE OF BABY BIRDIES.

"Throes" of passion, not "throws". "Throws" makes me think their supposed lover is flinging them across the room with mad martial arts skillz. Bad enough that you're using that kind of purple prose in the first place...

This is DEFINITELY not just in Kingdom Hearts, but I'm finding more and more of these abominations in KH.

Here are the rules if you want to add a French touch to your fic:

1. GET YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGES STRAIGHT. "De lea Cruz" is a SPANISH NAME! The proper FRENCH name would be "Due la Croix!" DE LA CROIX!!!! WITH AN X!!!! I'll be fine if you ( Read more... )

"Superior-sama" is repetative, not to mention really retarded sounding. :|

Ok, so, my sister and I are perusing fanfiction.net for some unspoken reason, when we notice this fic we are sporking had been updated. Intrigued that such a fic got 27 reviews, we clicked on them, not surprisingly to find that about 22 of them are all from the same person. We scrolled down the page, maybe hoping to find a decent flame, when I come ( Read more... )