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azuriteI got this review for WDKY6 today:
From: Some Dumb Fanbrat
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Girl you write to long chapters sometimes.
...Do I even need to start with this one? I should really just ignore all one-liner reviews with bad grammar/spelling. I really don't get too many one-liners, but I do get plenty of reviews with bad spelling. It's kind of ironic, really.
But this pisses me off NOT because it's one line and misspells one of the most basic words of the English language (or the person was too speedy to correct themselves, or they were too lazy to correct themselves after the fact, and LOOK! I spelled the word that they misspelled --but I did it correctly, and I'm typing fast!) but because this person was complaining about the length of my chapters.
LOOK, BUSTER, I didn't ask you to sit down and read my story. You have a CHOICE. I do not run a dictatorship. My monkeys will not eat your brain if you don't read every last line of every last chapter of my fic. Some people like oneshots better. Hell, I run a Oneshot C2 community at FFnet. But this particular fic IS LONG. It has to be. Why? Because I plan on making it damn good and well-developed, and that means I actually have to TAKE TIME with the characters, the plot, and everything else in between. Yes, I tend to babble, BUT I WRITE FOR A PURPOSE.
Trust me when I encourage readers who DO like the length to stick to it, and read between the lines, because when in WDKYverse, EVERYTHING will come back to bite you on the ass. For those readers smart and nice enough to be reading this entry, here's a small sampler of facts/happenings that will have an impact or appearance in later chapters. See if you can pick the chapter it's from:
-Somebody paid for the gang's meal at a restaurant.
-The code Laroque used to open the briefcase from the Big Five had a double meaning.
-Téa spots some pictures on the mantle in Kaiba mansion.
-Seto admits he has never tried raw cookie dough.
-The club that Mai and Téa went to refers to a Brendan Fraser movie. The reason why Mai and Téa will return to it in later chapters deals with the name of the club.
-There's an Indiana Jones reference when Malik shows up and shows the Egyptian exhibit to Téa and Seto.
-Joey and Mai both have screen names that they use to talk to Seto in a chat room.
And this is just from a FEW chapters. Now imagine if I had about 3-5 references in every chapter, with 36 total chapters-- 37 if you count 7A and 7B as separate chapters. There's a LOT to work in there. I don't write references uselessly. This story is so insanely planned out, it's a wonder it doesn't just prose-ify itself. But alas, that's not how fic works. I'm sorry for being a weirdo and taking it seriously.
My chapters are long because I write NOTHING that has NO MEANING. That translates to: EVERYTHING I WRITE IS IMPORTANT. If I felt some part of the chapter or story could be cut, I would. But I don't feel that way, so I can't. My editors and betas are welcome to tell me what they think is useless, or could be compressed, or better phrased, and I listen to them. But I don't tell them everything, and even they don't know what I will cut or for what reason.
...This review just pissed me off, but I don't want to reply to the person with this long-winded rant. I don't want to say "Fine, if your attention span is akin to that of a gnat, go find some crack!fic to amuse you. My fic takes time to develop because it's NOT complete crap from my bowels after eating some bad sashimi."
Hmph.
P.S. I finished my Yuna earring... sort of. It's good, but I can't get the tassel to attach to the bottom bead + wire without there being a very obvious loop. I tried to tie the tassel's string in a knot to the wire, but it kept slipping off, so I cut it. There's a wire going through the tassel, separate from the one going through all the beads. Any ideas on how to fix it?
P.P.S
From: Some Dumb Fanbrat
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Girl you write to long chapters sometimes.
...Do I even need to start with this one? I should really just ignore all one-liner reviews with bad grammar/spelling. I really don't get too many one-liners, but I do get plenty of reviews with bad spelling. It's kind of ironic, really.
But this pisses me off NOT because it's one line and misspells one of the most basic words of the English language (or the person was too speedy to correct themselves, or they were too lazy to correct themselves after the fact, and LOOK! I spelled the word that they misspelled --but I did it correctly, and I'm typing fast!) but because this person was complaining about the length of my chapters.
LOOK, BUSTER, I didn't ask you to sit down and read my story. You have a CHOICE. I do not run a dictatorship. My monkeys will not eat your brain if you don't read every last line of every last chapter of my fic. Some people like oneshots better. Hell, I run a Oneshot C2 community at FFnet. But this particular fic IS LONG. It has to be. Why? Because I plan on making it damn good and well-developed, and that means I actually have to TAKE TIME with the characters, the plot, and everything else in between. Yes, I tend to babble, BUT I WRITE FOR A PURPOSE.
Trust me when I encourage readers who DO like the length to stick to it, and read between the lines, because when in WDKYverse, EVERYTHING will come back to bite you on the ass. For those readers smart and nice enough to be reading this entry, here's a small sampler of facts/happenings that will have an impact or appearance in later chapters. See if you can pick the chapter it's from:
-Somebody paid for the gang's meal at a restaurant.
-The code Laroque used to open the briefcase from the Big Five had a double meaning.
-Téa spots some pictures on the mantle in Kaiba mansion.
-Seto admits he has never tried raw cookie dough.
-The club that Mai and Téa went to refers to a Brendan Fraser movie. The reason why Mai and Téa will return to it in later chapters deals with the name of the club.
-There's an Indiana Jones reference when Malik shows up and shows the Egyptian exhibit to Téa and Seto.
-Joey and Mai both have screen names that they use to talk to Seto in a chat room.
And this is just from a FEW chapters. Now imagine if I had about 3-5 references in every chapter, with 36 total chapters-- 37 if you count 7A and 7B as separate chapters. There's a LOT to work in there. I don't write references uselessly. This story is so insanely planned out, it's a wonder it doesn't just prose-ify itself. But alas, that's not how fic works. I'm sorry for being a weirdo and taking it seriously.
My chapters are long because I write NOTHING that has NO MEANING. That translates to: EVERYTHING I WRITE IS IMPORTANT. If I felt some part of the chapter or story could be cut, I would. But I don't feel that way, so I can't. My editors and betas are welcome to tell me what they think is useless, or could be compressed, or better phrased, and I listen to them. But I don't tell them everything, and even they don't know what I will cut or for what reason.
...This review just pissed me off, but I don't want to reply to the person with this long-winded rant. I don't want to say "Fine, if your attention span is akin to that of a gnat, go find some crack!fic to amuse you. My fic takes time to develop because it's NOT complete crap from my bowels after eating some bad sashimi."
Hmph.
P.S. I finished my Yuna earring... sort of. It's good, but I can't get the tassel to attach to the bottom bead + wire without there being a very obvious loop. I tried to tie the tassel's string in a knot to the wire, but it kept slipping off, so I cut it. There's a wire going through the tassel, separate from the one going through all the beads. Any ideas on how to fix it?
P.P.S
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Date: 2006-04-06 11:37 am (UTC)And...um...I'm notorious for writing thrity page long chapters or worse. *ahem* So you're in good company. (Oh no! It's an Azurite fangirl! Eeek!)
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Date: 2006-04-06 06:48 pm (UTC)So, yeah... I've said all this before, so it really bugs me when I get reviews like this.
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Date: 2006-04-07 04:26 pm (UTC)*flashback*
inner skunky: GAH! Does Tea DROWN?!?!? NOO!! I can't go home yet!!! Save her you idiot CEO!!!
vocal skunky: *feverishly* Uhm, just a minute dad! I'm almost done!
Dad: well, you know the walk home *rolls eyes*
Skunky: *sweat sweat sweat* *speedread speedread speedread*
*end flashback*
After a big bout of therapy (not) I look back on such times as these and nod at my own eventual intelligence to copy/paste each chapter into a documetn on a floppy disk then take it home to read over the weekends.
Still, you probably have the biggest file of any writer (aside from me) on my laptop, Congrats! ^_^ (that IS a good thing,so don't worry.)
And I have to add that yours is the ONLY azureshipping fic that I have...well...on second thought there might be some accidental stuff from Mamono, but normally I can't stand Kaiba *twitch twitch twitch* and thus I avoid such things.
Again, Congrats.
Oh dear...I'm fangirling...*gulp*
Oh well, this is hopefully MEDICINAL, non-rage, non-ego-splintering fangirling. It er...promotes healthy growth of self esteem and dragon scale.
(skunky's "voice of reason": O_o;; er...what?)
Okay, maybe not dragon scale...but this is still medicinal ego-boosting fangirling. (one liners? heh, I WISH! Rant and rave!!! *dances*)
Keep your chapters as long as you like Azurite-sama. On the bright side, one liners are easy to reply to. It'll just take 1-3 words:
"yes, they are."
Or maybe just: "yes." *grin*
Don't waste your words. ^_~
-skunky
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Date: 2006-04-07 07:07 pm (UTC)I've been seriously plotbunnied by fic authors I really like, who take forever to update... I start getting ideas of my own! I wonder if anyone's ever thought that way about WDKY? This next chapter is a toughie, because it has SO MUCH in there (the last part of Anubis' duel, his past history, more wangst and romance, more plot, more mystery). So it'll be long whether people like it or not. I have no problem with people reading it in chunks-- I'm just sick of splitting my chapters up because of it. It's not like WDKY is some sort of a cheeseburger that you should cut up to consume the best way.
Kaiba and Bakura are my favorite characters to write, because I try to keep them IC, but I still screw with them to high heaven. I refuse to be one of those authors who has conversations with them, but if I did, they would both probably be cursing me out. :D
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Date: 2006-04-12 07:00 pm (UTC)You have your own folder in my new "favorite fics/authors" folder on my snazzy new laptop. You still have everyone beat for sheer volume, even when I put up my bruiser of a fic there along with it (to disguise the content of what I'm writing, just in case someone else gets on my laptop by chance *nervous twitch*)
There's nothing wrong with taking home a chpater in a doggie bag if you can't finish it! ^_^U though it's more my own accursed plotbunnies that keep me up at night...
Er...who DOESN'T screw their favorite characters to high heaven in any given angst fic?? Bakura rocks, enough said. (Though that's probably just my insane affection for any given villain character kicking in...*ahem*) And your portrayal of characters is something I can trust to be basically bang on (even if Kaiba's softening a little, that's only what comes to be expected given that he now has a romantic interest.)
Hmm...and about the chatting with the characters thing, I always have an end of chapter parody sort of thing that makes fun of all that sort of thing...last time I updated I think I went into about how the given caustic villain character who hates basically everything has an undying love for baking muffins... O_o You're probably better off without even worrying about that.
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Date: 2006-04-06 12:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 09:40 pm (UTC)Long chapters are good.
I should get back to writing. ::smacks self::
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Date: 2006-04-17 09:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-17 11:19 pm (UTC)