Hear hear. Personally, I very much like it when reviewers point out typos or mistakes. If it's not really a mistake, I simply explain it. But most of the time it is something that does need to be fixed. And as you say, I want my story to be its best. Even if I don't fix it (or only fix it on the copy on my computer), at least it's been drawn to my attention.
Exactly. I just seem to be seeing this trend lately of people complaining that they've been "flamed" but then when they tell/post the review in question it's just something dumb like a misspelled word or the continuity thing I mentioned above and I find myself thinking: 1. no one bashed the story or you, 2. they mentioned a simple mistake in the midst of an otherwise pleasnat review, and 3. if you can't take something as simple as someone catching a minor error, then how would you ever handle an editor going over your work?
I feel like, when I see these (which again, isn't often but I am seeing them) that it is someone who truly believes every word that drips from their brain is sheer genius and no one could ever do anything less than love it, praise it, and recognize their sheer brilliance. And quite frankly it just makes me *eye roll*.
No certainly not a flame to point out a mistake. Though on TPP, it's actually in the Terms of Service not to leave correction info in a review. They direct people to contact the author privately instead.
Again... not a flame. But perhaps akin to telling the entire room 'Your underwear is showing' rather than whispering it to the person with visible knickers.
What PJ said. I'm grateful for concrit, too, but I have one reviewer in particular who seems to live to find what she considers errors. Often these turn out to be non-errors (words that were just not yet in her vocabulary, f'rinstance) or things I've done deliberately, but I would be considerably less irritated if she did this privately, instead of seeming to consider the review medium an opportunity to show off how clever she is.
Well, with regard to how a character acts in a fic, you are right that we all see them our own way. For me, I look at the characters in each fic individually - i.e. sometimes you have self-loathing!Snape, sometimes Sexy!Snape, etc.
Like for me, I think your Snape in Vain Wisdom is straight sexy!! Do I think he's canon? Eh.. Maybe, maybe not, typical canon!Snape BUT for this particular story he is the perfect Snape for the job. :)
I meant to say too - but the internet got all wonky and I had to sign off - that I agree about the people who just typically nitpick every single fic they come across. They are an issue on the opposite end of the spectrum and I'm not actually talking about those reviewers (they are annoying as hell - the grammer police).
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I feel like, when I see these (which again, isn't often but I am seeing them) that it is someone who truly believes every word that drips from their brain is sheer genius and no one could ever do anything less than love it, praise it, and recognize their sheer brilliance. And quite frankly it just makes me *eye roll*.
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Again... not a flame. But perhaps akin to telling the entire room 'Your underwear is showing' rather than whispering it to the person with visible knickers.
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Like for me, I think your Snape in Vain Wisdom is straight sexy!! Do I think he's canon? Eh.. Maybe, maybe not, typical canon!Snape BUT for this particular story he is the perfect Snape for the job. :)
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