Author has written 1 story for Digimon. Hey, my name is...well...you can call me TaichiZeromaru (from Digimon V-Tamer). I've had an idea for a Digimon fanfiction for some time, and I may get around to writing it someday :P. Anyway, until then, there's not really going to be much here. I'll review a story if I find it interesting or if I see potential for something interesting. If I make a critique, it will never be with malicious intent in mind, because I wouldn't bother writing a review for something I didn't like. If I put a story in my Favorites section, you can assume that I would highly recommend it. Lately I've only been reading Digimon fanfics, and a couple of Naruto fanfics (and one crossover of the two). However, I may branch out one day. Edit: I've recently been branching out into How to Train Your Dragon fanfics, because I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. You also may find me reading fanfics for Fairy Tail occasionally. I also want to say thank you to the writers on this site. It takes guts to upload a story here, and I've read many really great stories on this site. Some quick pet peeves of mine (If I see any of these, it will be very unlikely that I will ever read/continue reading your story) 1. "What if?" in the summary more than once. Really, it's best if this wasn't in the summary at all. If it's in the summary once, I may still read the story depending on the concept, but if there's more than one, I will definitely not read the story. To solve this, simply phrase the summary as a statement, rather than a question. For example, instead of "What if this happened?" use "This happened." 2. Something I'll call "artificial suspense." I read some of a story recently that had a real problem with this. The phrase in the story was something like, "they both knew nothing would ever be the same again," when nothing had happened yet. If you need suspense, don't rely on an omniscient narrator (or unusually perceptive characters) to accomplish this for you. One acceptable (in my opinion) way to create suspense would be the classic "mysterious evil character(s) in a dark room" conversation. It's cliche, but not the worst cliche that you could use. 3. Grammar mistakes in the summary. This can include, but is not limited to, improper placement of apostrophes (you're, vs. your), typing a summary in all CAPS (please stop shouting...), and misspellings (spell check exists here too). 4. Saying "I suck at summaries." If you suck at summaries, you probably suck at writing, and I don't want to read your story. The opposite is also true. That is to say, if you don't suck at writing, you don't suck at summaries (no matter what you may think). My opinion is that everybody here who has the guts to post a story doesn't think they suck at writing, so there's no excuse for saying you suck at writing summaries. It really just shows that you're too lazy to actually write a summary. On a similar note, if you say "summary inside," I won't go inside to read it. I'll add to this list as I go, but these are just some easily correctable problems that I have in mind right now. |
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