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Postby Dana on Fri Dec 28, 2012 3:40 pm

We said we would offer notes on stories if you want them. Here's where you can sign up to get them! Please mention the email you sent it from as well as the titles of the stories you would like us to review. Once you sign up, the notes will be given privately.
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Re: Notes

Postby Scarab on Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:34 pm

I'd like some, please :) I'm the Tsarah989
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Re: Notes

Postby Pixelmage on Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:35 pm

I'm signing up, particularly about my C!Fic.
I sent it from filipegoneves@gmail.com with the title Cthulhu Fic. the actual file name was Cthulhu Boss Fight. :)
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Re: Notes

Postby Connor Fallon on Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:36 pm

Scarab wrote:I'd like some, please :) I'm the Tsarah989


Got a story in particular? You submitted quite a few =P
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Re: Notes

Postby Scarab on Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:37 pm

Connor Fallon wrote:
Scarab wrote:I'd like some, please :) I'm the Tsarah989


Got a story in particular? You submitted quite a few =P


Oh... right :oops:

Um, well I think I made quite a few errors in the Cthulhu fic (which still somehow WON? :?) and there are bits I'm still unhappy with, sooo some general story-flow and not-sounding-corny-as-hell advice would be appreciated.
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Re: Notes

Postby RotavatoR on Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:41 pm

I'd like to recieve notes on both stories I sent from my finalarcana e-mail address.
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Re: Notes

Postby S_o_S on Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:55 pm

I only submitted the one refic for Sweeney Todd. Meant to do more, but life. It was posted to the therapist's blog under the same name as my forum name here. I would be interested in hearing a critique - I wish to develop as a writer.
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Re: Notes

Postby Tohrinha on Fri Dec 28, 2012 7:17 pm

I sent in a few stories. Some I spent more time and effort on than others, and it probably shows, but I'd like feedback.
My email is metaguardstorytime.
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Re: Notes

Postby JackAlsworth on Fri Dec 28, 2012 7:20 pm

Got a request from the friend who wrote Angel's initial story. The title of the file was "The Guardian"; his email is the tkeddo one. (I'd prefer not to post the entire thing on a publicly accessible forum without permission.)
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Re: Notes

Postby eli_gone_crazy on Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:26 pm

I sent two c!fics :oops: I would love to have notes on them. ehollow1
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Re: Notes

Postby Tom on Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:31 pm

I want to say again that reviewing fics was my absolute favorite part of the game. I hope this encourages those of you who might be on the fence to ask what we thought.

I cried so many times doing reading for the game... and some of the stories which didn't get accepted still made me tear up.
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Re: Notes

Postby Dana on Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:32 pm

Tom wrote:I want to say again that reviewing fics was my absolute favorite part of the game. I hope this encourages those of you who might be on the fence to ask what we thought.

I cried so many times doing reading for the game... and some of the stories which didn't get accepted still made me tear up.


x2

(Okay, I only teared up once, never cried. STILL.)
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Re: Notes

Postby Connor Fallon on Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:32 pm

Dana wrote:
Tom wrote:I want to say again that reviewing fics was my absolute favorite part of the game. I hope this encourages those of you who might be on the fence to ask what we thought.

I cried so many times doing reading for the game... and some of the stories which didn't get accepted still made me tear up.


x2


x4
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Re: Notes

Postby Eric Kays on Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:33 pm

Connor Fallon wrote:
Dana wrote:
Tom wrote:I want to say again that reviewing fics was my absolute favorite part of the game. I hope this encourages those of you who might be on the fence to ask what we thought.

I cried so many times doing reading for the game... and some of the stories which didn't get accepted still made me tear up.


x2


x4

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Re: Notes

Postby Adell on Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:51 pm

I legitimately teared up at Pixel's Don reffic.
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Re: Notes

Postby Blurred_9L on Fri Dec 28, 2012 8:58 pm

I'd like notes too, please.

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Re: Notes

Postby Dryunya on Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:49 pm

People actually cried at our fics? :shock: Like, for real? Like that? ---> :cry:
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Re: Notes

Postby Tom on Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:57 pm

Repeatedly.
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Re: Notes

Postby Blurred_9L on Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:59 pm

Will we ever know which refics made you guys cry?
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Re: Notes

Postby Tom on Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:27 am

I feel that feedback should be given privately and shared only if the writer chooses to.
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Re: Notes

Postby Sicon112 on Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:30 am

I can already guess what someone would say about that one metaguard fic I sent in for Medusa. It was thrown together in under thirty minutes and had no real character whatsoever because I literally didn't have TIME. I didn't write it to win, I wrote it because people wanted to see an epic battle against Medusa. With a rocket launcher. And a nuke. I just gave them something for their own amusement. ^_^
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Re: Notes

Postby Dryunya on Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:00 am

(Medusa surviving a nuke still makes no sense. =P )
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Re: Notes

Postby Sicon112 on Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:01 am

Dryunya wrote:(Medusa surviving a nuke still makes no sense. =P )


Meh, didn't care. Was sleep deprived. Just was going on autopilot. Like I said, it was crap, but I didn't really care. The fight scene was at least OK.
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Re: Notes

Postby Rick Healey on Sat Dec 29, 2012 1:58 am

Well, hate to break it to folks, but only one 'fic made me cry. But I used to be a professional critic, and I'm currently an editor. It's a well-known rule that your soul becomes a blackened husk when you do either profession.

In all seriousness, I will contribute some of my thoughts, although I want to be as fair as possible to the author, so I'm going to take time to reread each requested fic and come up with commentary that will be as productive as I can make it. Tom will have to bear with me; I'm going to take time to get that together for him to send to folks.
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Re: Notes

Postby Qara-Xuan Zenith on Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:28 pm

Um... I'd love feedback on any or all of the stuff I wrote, though I seem to recall there were a lot. All but one from qxzenith.
Though other than the songs and the villanelle, the only c!fic I took very seriously was the one I sent from steve.ehad...
Oh, and my one-word c!fic was from @DemosthenesWall... :lol:
(I'd also be happy for any feedback on the songs, of course, though there were a lot of them, if I recall, so if that's not possible, I understand. :oops: )
Oh, I just realized I sent the Todd poem as a blog comment under QXZenith. That should cover everything now. :?
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