Penname: BattyBigSister [Contact]
Real name: People call me BS irl. I kid you not. It's short for BigSister. You may also call me Bats, Batty or Batgirl if you prefer.
Membership status: Member
Member since: 26/03/11
Website: http://battybigsister.webs.com
Beta-reader: No
Real name: People call me BS irl. I kid you not. It's short for BigSister. You may also call me Bats, Batty or Batgirl if you prefer.
Membership status: Member
Member since: 26/03/11
Website: http://battybigsister.webs.com
Beta-reader: No
Because you're never too old for a good obsession... ;0)
Let's see: I'm in my twenties, live in Britain and have all the makings of an arrogant pretentious cow, but I'm not usually intentionally mean. If I come across as a bit too brusque at times then I'd like to apologize, because I didn't mean it that way at all. If I review for you and try to offer constructive criticism - then it's usually because I think you've got talent enough to be able to improve in that area and - much more crucially - because I actually liked your story. If I didn't I'd just hit the back button, so take heart from that even if I am once again being a cow. (Seriously, I try my hardest to watch what I say, but sometimes my underlying rotten personality just sneaks out on me.)
I also try to always do my best in my writing, so when I review I try to review in a way that I would most like to receive. That doesn't mean that I necessarily expect the same back from you. I'm grateful for anything someone who bothered to read my stories has to say, even if it I was just 'I liked this', because after all its great to know that you did. Don't you think?
My favourites things include: writing, reviews, computer games and animals; and you'll often see references to the last one in my writing - especially hamsters (I love my hamsters!) and cats (I come from a cat-crazy family). I also like grammar and drawing, but I'm not very good at either in my opinion.
Check out my website for more details on me and my stories. There are pictures, character bios and all sorts for those of you who are interested.
Something I never really went into on TONFA much before, but am now using more and more is this thing I dubbed "the review" form. It started out as something to help (lazy/busy) reviewers in SWB by giving them simple questions to answer, but gradually it's evolved into a nice easy scoring system that gives a good overview of different elements of a story or chapter and I've begun using it to review other people's story too.
Feel free to use it/something similar yourself if you like. I usually comment under every section, but don't feel like you have to do that. Just the scores is fine as well.
o/ Plot development? _/10
How the story is progressing. Do I thinking more could have been put/in left out? Is the story progressing too fast/slowly? Are event/explanations/etc being skipped that ought to have been explored in more depth? Does everything in it makes sense to me when I read it?
o/Use of characters? _/10
Are the characters (original & cannon) true to themselves? Are characters appearing in scenes, but adding nothing to the story? Is the author giving someone an excessive amount of 'airtime', which doesn't help with the plot or understanding the story)? Conversely are characters being neglected and aspects of their reactions being unnecessarily skipped over? Has someone failed to react to something that they really ought to have said more about?
o/ Description? _/10
Self-explanatory really. Did the author include description? Was there too much/too little of it? It it add value to the story? Did everything feel real and engaging or not?
o/ Inconsistencies with cannon plot? Characters in-character as regards to the original work? _/10
As specific to fanfiction - fanfiction stuff. Does the author show understanding of the established world & its occupants? Are there specific things that don't match up? Is the author flaming or misportraying a certain character?
o/ Overall quality of the writing? Easy to read? Grammar and Spelling? _/10
Basic literacy and quality of English used, as regards to how easy it is to read what has been published.
o/ Enjoyment? An engaging read? _/10
In the simplest terms: do I like what I'm reading? Is it entertaining? And can I connect with what was happening or not?
o/ Overall? _/10
And finally, an overall picture of what I thought of the chapter.
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Challenges by BattyBigSister
Summary: It is pretty much accepted fact that most of the anime fillers are so poor, I could dose a monkey on steroids, hand it a typewriter and the result would probably be more watchable. So prove my point for me. Write a better filler than those in the anime. It can't be that hard...
I'm looking for a high-quality story that could potentially happen in the Naruto-verse. So:
- Your plot must be Naruto canon. Whatever you write must be feasible as a Naruto filler. You may not have a real world person visit the Naruto-world or vice versa; you may not send them all to highschool; you may not turn canon people into vampires or werewolves or similar; you may not introduce a very unlikely sibling or family member; you may not radically alter well documented clans and systems like the Uchiha clan or the Kage system; you may not create new bijuu or jinchuriki of those bijuu (they are all accounted for in the manga & anime, so they are all accounted in your story. Past jiinchuriki are a different story, like Killer Bee's cousin, but they would no longer have their bijuu unless your story is set in the past. Remember that many jinchuriki die with the extraction of a bijuu); you may not change a character's gender or do anything else drastically AU - because all of that would defy the point of this exercise.
That doesn't mean you can't be creative. You may introduce OCs if you can support them in the canon universe; you may design new places or other types of ninja; you may set your story in the past (preferably not the future, because that wouldn't really work as a filler); you may introduce new hobbies/interests/pets/etc providing they fit a character's personality; you may introduce other types of people (pirates, rouge scientists, princesses, bandit gangs etc) providing you can justify their existence. - Your story can be any type of genre. Warm and fluffy, action and adventure, horror, supernatural, fantasy... Providing you can keep it canon. (And canon involves everything from a land of talking frogs onwards so we can be pretty liberal here.)
- All Characters must be In Character and character bashing or flaming is out of the question. You may not like every character in Naruto, but try to do as realistic a portrayal of everyone as you can. You might have a plot that draws out new elements of someone's personality and that's fantastic, but please avoid deliberately making everyone hate a character they clearly don't; or making someone appear more stupid/meaner than they really are; or even making someone ridiculously fluffy. Let's try and stick with who they are please - and if you really can't stand a specific character that much, then just attempt to avoid them in your story.
- You may however use any type of rating or romantic pairing you wish. If I were being true to my goal I should force you to keep your plot suitable for Naruto's normal audience of young teenagers and forbid the use of non-cannn pairings. But I know for a lot of you that might make this whole exercise just too boring to attempt and I know people prefer to read (& review) romance - and there simply aren't a lot of canon pairings. So do what you like: Yaoi, Yuri, Hetrosexual, Hentai... I don't care, but I do ask that you keep any non-canon romance along side or just one part of a canon-worthy plot. Thank you. I want something I can read and think 'Wow! This could really happen' not 'Well, Shikamaru and Temari are having fun today. I can't really imagine that they'd be married with a baby by the end of Shippuden though'
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