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MegatronsPen
Other than a Cybertronian writing utensil, I am an avid brony that is partial to writing novice-level stories whenever an idea pops into my head, whether I like it, or not. It's mostly the latter.
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Oh hell yes.
Cock:NEXT CHAPTER YOU DICKHEAD!!!!
Author, this is... absolutely dreadful. I'm sorry, but it needs saying.
I like clop as much as the next sickeningly deviant member of this community, believe me, but I also like good writing. And I made it exactly three sentences into this story before downvoting it because oh dear sweet pony Jesus, you need to work on editing your sentences.
Yes. That's three sentences.
First up, "could not help but feel that". This is how you're going to launch your story, with a six-word negative phrase that provides no story content? How is this preferable to "felt that"?
Next, "her husband using his connections as a Prince of the Crystal Empire to inquire of the movements and constant whereabouts of his little sister from halfway across Equestria". This is a... damn, I don't even know what this is. Is it a subject? An object? It's some sort of compound noun clause thing. Your sentence structure is "Cadance felt that X was Y", and this is the X. Except your X is twenty-eight words long and contains six distinct prepositional phrases, one of which uses an inappropriate preposition. I don't know how Twilight will be at fucking Cadance here, but you're doing an admirable job fucking the English language.
Last, "was a little bit over protective, if not a teeny-tiny bit stalkerish of Shining Armor." At least this isn't the same sort of travesty as the forgoing section, but the voicing is poor for Cadance and this is still wishy-washy construction. Why say what you mean once when you can say it twice with bonus adjectives? At least you actually used Shining Armor's name here instead of an LUS replacement.
That's the first sentence. I don't feel like I need to do the other two.
What I want to impress on you here, author, is to please learn to edit your fucking stories and make them readable. I was all primed for some good clop this morning. Your premise looked fun. And it took you exactly three setences to lose me as a reader. I'm not asking for high art here—though frankly that'd be nice, but we can't all be darf or Gabriel LaVedier—but could you at least make me not want to claw my eyes out here?
I know this sounds harsh, and I'm sorry for that, but...
six fucking prepositional phrases, in a twenty-eight word compound subject(??), in the first fucking sentence of your story!?
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I FUCKING CALLED IT
6207965 ikr seriously thiugh this needs a second chapter
6207905
Wow, you don't need to go to a hundred when you are giving advice man. I have to agree with what you are saying, that first paragraph could use some TLC, but are you trying to help the author or bust his confidence?
Being honest is good, but you don't need to be a duck to give feedback my friend.
In school they thought us that a good story catches attention by using a writing device called a hook. Something that grabs the readers attention and makes them read it.
That title is a perfect example
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Yeah, I felt a little bad writing that—except here's the thing: the first few sentences of this piece are some of the worst writing I've seen on this site. I mean, this is really bad. Not mildly bad. Not a little bad. This is well-nigh unreadable, and I'm frankly stunned that 63 people so far have apparently been willing to put up with it.
I think writing is awesome. I really like it. And I'm happy that the author also enjoys it, but at the same time I think it's important that the author know that this is really, really awful. At least at the start. Hopefully it gets better as it goes along. The author apparently has two people editing this before posting, which is also cool. It indicates good process habits, trying to get new eyes on your writing before publishing so that you've got a chance to improve. But those editors are apparently not helping much.
MegatronsPen, I don't want to discourage you from writing. I really don't. I think it's awesome that you're trying, and I think you had a cool idea here which I was really interested to read. But I think it's important for you to know just how badly you're delivering the story hook here, because you're not going to improve if you're just getting bombarded with "Oh this is so cool" comments. There are a chunk of us—and I'm guessing a decent chunk, based on the votes on my previous comment and your downvote ratio—who are coming into this story looking for something cool, and who you're managing to lose within the first couple sentences because of the writing quality. That's not good for you—it loses you an audience you almost had with your idea. That's not good for us—it denies us a story we might have enjoyed. It's just bad all around, and it's something you can fix without even doing that much work. This is pretty elementary writing technique stuff. You should be shooting to immerse your readers in your story, not leave them distracted with clunky prose.
I do not, by any means, think you should stop writing. I think it's awesome that you had a cool idea here that made me want to read your story. But I do think you should work on your technique, because reading even three sentences of this was downright painful. I don't want to be saying that. I want to like your story, or I wouldn't have bothered clicking on it in the first place. But I think it's important that you know what your prose is doing to your ideas, because you're not going to get better if you're not aware, and I'm not going to have access to more decent clop unless you (and other writers on this site) get their shit together on this stuff. If anything, take the fact that I'm here commenting as a sign that I care and I want this to be better. If I didn't care, I'd just let it slide and not say anything. But this could have been so good, if it'd lived up to the premise. I really wanted to read this. And I'd rather call you on it now, if it meant that in the future maybe I'd get to read something by you I'd really, really enjoy.
I know I'm being harsh in the comments here, but sweet pony Jesus I want you to make this story something I'd enjoy reading, and I'm still sad it's not.
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Are you slobbering fan-fucks actually giving a guy crap and downvoting for providing constructive criticism? So what if his tone was "mean".
Oh no! Not a meanie-head! He deserves time-out for raising his e-voice!
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Fair enough, and I do agree with a lot of your points.
I do like how people are getting annoyed and I had nothing to do with it other than the fact I wrote this story.
Can't say it didn't spark a debate of some kind... right? Am I right?!
Ah...
Anyway. Back to chapter two.
Hell I liked it!!
6208870 Hell, I like it you liked it! Chapter two is coming fast.
Look! I punned again. How terrible am I? i189.photobucket.com/albums/z113/Dead_Metal_album/DanglyParts_zpsaba9b73f.jpg
6208889 Cool looking forward to it!!
6207905
Dude's got a point.Edit: No, he really knows his shit. Listen to him. Trust me.~Skeeter The Lurker
6207905
This isn't criticism. This is abusive. If you actually try to justify this, there's something wrong with you or you're just one of those trolls who likes to shit on people and hide behind 'criticism' when retribution comes your way. If you were so truly concerned about the author's writing or editing you'd have sent it to them in a PM instead of lambasting them in their own story comments, belittling and degrading them for all to see like some entitled douchebag. Have some common human decency.
6209168
Don't even start. You know better.
6209167 Don't worry Skeeter, I listened and have edited the first chapter to try and reflect his concerns. We chatted in PM rather than the potential cluster fuck the comments can often bring.
Edit: Granted, to the best of my writing ability.
6209168 The issue has been resolved. Thanks for your concern, but there's no butthurt here by me over what he said.
Besides, my clop's are always never designed never to be perfect by my own personality flaw.
Its gonna get 666 likes again
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But, no seriously.
I still have to write the Luna futa version.
*Eyes the downvote button on this comment* Wait for it. Wait for it...
6209344 THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER ONE?!?! OH MOST JOYUS OF OCCASIONS
6209379 Unfortunately, two, since some evil bastard suggested in a PM and it sort of stuck in my mind.
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6209344 dude u should make ur stories into cock vore stories where let's say twi cock vored shinning and then impregnated him into cadence.
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6209168
...yeah, I'll admit I probably stepped over the line.
But at the same time (and hopefully this isn't stepping over another line), based on PM conversation I get the feeling that doing so really did help drive my point home with 6209222, who otherwise probably wouldn't have cared. Which isn't much of a defense, but still. And I do want to say that I think the newly-edited version, even as small as the intro changes may be, helps enormously with my ability to get immersed in the story. It's still not high art, and I'm cool with that, but in my opinion it's a lot better, and I'm hoping I can find time to read the whole thing through tonight.
Also, 6209167, you're totally wrong.
6209427 I'm happy to oblige... though I can't guarantee continued satisfaction! *Shifty eyes* My incapability to take clop seriously bleeds through in my clop writings. A lot.
I hope you do manage to get through it somehow.
One of us has to, bro.
6209427
Can't argue with results I guess. Although good thing the author is thick skinned.
Also the thumbs up ratios seem to say that you were in the right, in the majority's view.
Guess I'm just a softy in comparison to others in here. I'll go bang on my bongo drums while singing kumbaya.
6209473 I appreciate what you said, bro. I still loves you.
6209488
Join the circle my friend. Kumbaya My Lord, Kumbaya My Lord, Oh Lord Kumbaya... Now where the fuck is all the weed?
6209508 That's in a different fic, my man.
6209427
I've gotta be in the ball park.
~Skeeter The Lurker
Well, this was quite an adventure. Pleasure to help again, Mega, and I think I learned something about editing because of it, so thank you too, 6207905
I'm glad it sounds better after we tore through it again.
6209629 I second this motion.
I just finished reading chapter 1 2 minutes ago and then this updates.
6209685 I apologize. I'll take it down straight away.
I MISSED AN EM FUCKING DASH AND A COUPLE OF MISTAKES!
6207905 Well I, for one, appreciate the bluntness of your criticism, and the way in which it was delivered. It could just be my outspoken stance on the subject, but I feel there are too many special snowflakes that like to call foul on reviews like this. This kind of harsh, verbal prodding is usually enough to shake them out of their comfort zone. Sadly, it too-often results in backlash: one instance I can recall resulted in the author revoking their story from the site, and muting me for my efforts.
It's risky business, commenting on the internet. I can see why this might rub some people the wrong way, but it's not a stance I can empathize with easily.
And yes, I know the situation is largely resolved. I just felt I needed to put in my two cents as well, from one critic to another. Cheers; I'm going to read some (hopefully improved) clop.
6209713 Save yourself! Don't look. The horror... the horror!
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Dear Cadence
YOU JUST GOT DOMINATED CREAMPUFF
6209732 Horrible pleasure.
I'd started reading, but someone walked into the room. Now that they've left...derpicdn.net/img/view/2013/12/1/486563__safe_solo_twilight+sparkle_meme_animated_princess+twilight_image+macro_book_caption_reading.gif
6209473
Oh course he is thick-skinned, it's Megatron's Pen! I don't think that the Decepticon leader is easy on pens.
I don't want to read this... but then again, I do. Maybe cause I like stories where Cadance gets stuffed... cause I know I don't much like Futalight.
I've decided I'm going to downvote this story no matter how it ends, but I still want to see how it ends so, Favorite.
That was blanking great!!!!!! (SQUEE!!!!)
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Ha, In for a penny in for a pound I take it?
6210190 Bullseye
Supprise! Buttsecs!