Oboebyrd's Guide to Writing Formulaic Fanfiction
(A/N: Yes, yes, I'm doing an Author's Note. I usually don't, except for itty-bitty little asides up at the top of the chapters, but there's always room for something new, right?
Anywho, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my reviewers. Especially those of your who zealously review every single chapter, ie Burningtyger, who has been, by far, my most fervid review-buddy. Thanks, Burningtyger.
Of course, considerable graciousness is extended towards every other person who also reviewed. You people are all so smart (With a few exceptions that shall not be named), and more often than not have added things to my chapters that I feel like a fool for forgetting about when I read the reviews. If you haven't yet read the reviews of this Guide, I think you really should. Especially the ones dealing with the Thranduil chapter, because I apparently missed quite a bit in my short little essay. I am a bad, bad person. A person who usually does these chapters in about an hour or so, actually. It's not like these are thought out.
All the stories that are thought out are ignored by reviewers. I spent... what... about three hours last night writing the fifth chapter of my murder mystery Night Whispers, and yet only three people have reviewed. I don't write for reviews, but that rather annoys me. Sure, it's rated 'R', and it's in the 'Scooby-Doo' section of FF.net, and if you want reviews you should not write for Scooby-Doo and especially not at a mature rating, but still. Three hours amount to naught. ::Sob::
I've already told you before what I think of people who shamelessly plug for their own stories in reviews. I think as much about people who plug their own stories in their other stories- if we like their stuff, we'll click on their author-name and see it there, right? So I was not plugging. Honestly. Really. I WASN'T PLUGGING, DAMN IT!
Stop staring at me like that. Stop it. I just want to be loved. Everyone wants to be loved. That is all. WHY WON'T YOU PEOPLE BELIEVE ME!?!?
The pounding noises won't stop. Drums... drums in the deep of my BRAIN. And the wastebasket... where the hell is the wastebasket? Where? WHERE? THE STUPID ANONYMOUS REVIEWERS HAVE IT, THAT'S WHO!
I slave, slave, slave away, and then they don't even make up a name to go by when they review! They just... just... type in something, and leave it like that! BLANK SPACE! I can't take the blankness! Blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank...
No, I am NOT insane! I don't care what the bunnies tell you! I AM NOT INSANE! NOT! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTT CRAZY!
I don't wanna go to the market, mama...
This has gone on awhile.. I guess I'd better just... move onto the chapter... not that those anonymous reviewers will even CARE!!!!!
Chapter 15: Author Notes
Whoops... sorry... no room for this anymore...
~~~ Oboebyrd: Just hoping that shock-value would override your desires for good- taste on this one, folks... ^_^ ... but I'm also very easily amused...
(A/N: Yes, yes, I'm doing an Author's Note. I usually don't, except for itty-bitty little asides up at the top of the chapters, but there's always room for something new, right?
Anywho, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my reviewers. Especially those of your who zealously review every single chapter, ie Burningtyger, who has been, by far, my most fervid review-buddy. Thanks, Burningtyger.
Of course, considerable graciousness is extended towards every other person who also reviewed. You people are all so smart (With a few exceptions that shall not be named), and more often than not have added things to my chapters that I feel like a fool for forgetting about when I read the reviews. If you haven't yet read the reviews of this Guide, I think you really should. Especially the ones dealing with the Thranduil chapter, because I apparently missed quite a bit in my short little essay. I am a bad, bad person. A person who usually does these chapters in about an hour or so, actually. It's not like these are thought out.
All the stories that are thought out are ignored by reviewers. I spent... what... about three hours last night writing the fifth chapter of my murder mystery Night Whispers, and yet only three people have reviewed. I don't write for reviews, but that rather annoys me. Sure, it's rated 'R', and it's in the 'Scooby-Doo' section of FF.net, and if you want reviews you should not write for Scooby-Doo and especially not at a mature rating, but still. Three hours amount to naught. ::Sob::
I've already told you before what I think of people who shamelessly plug for their own stories in reviews. I think as much about people who plug their own stories in their other stories- if we like their stuff, we'll click on their author-name and see it there, right? So I was not plugging. Honestly. Really. I WASN'T PLUGGING, DAMN IT!
Stop staring at me like that. Stop it. I just want to be loved. Everyone wants to be loved. That is all. WHY WON'T YOU PEOPLE BELIEVE ME!?!?
The pounding noises won't stop. Drums... drums in the deep of my BRAIN. And the wastebasket... where the hell is the wastebasket? Where? WHERE? THE STUPID ANONYMOUS REVIEWERS HAVE IT, THAT'S WHO!
I slave, slave, slave away, and then they don't even make up a name to go by when they review! They just... just... type in something, and leave it like that! BLANK SPACE! I can't take the blankness! Blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank blank...
No, I am NOT insane! I don't care what the bunnies tell you! I AM NOT INSANE! NOT! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTT CRAZY!
I don't wanna go to the market, mama...
This has gone on awhile.. I guess I'd better just... move onto the chapter... not that those anonymous reviewers will even CARE!!!!!
Chapter 15: Author Notes
Whoops... sorry... no room for this anymore...
~~~ Oboebyrd: Just hoping that shock-value would override your desires for good- taste on this one, folks... ^_^ ... but I'm also very easily amused...