Name: Kisou reviewed A Beautiful Disaster on Aug 06, 2006 01:27 pm

There was a little more interaction there, and thank you for that, but you're still streching it. If you want to stop getting review like mine and flame_kitty's you should probably post this specifically as a songfic. Yes, I know you think the title is enough, but let me tell you, it isn't. For example, I was just reading Rhapsody by distempered. It has a very distinctly music title, and a lot of music reference, singing, and whatnot. Yet, very rarely does she put in actual lyrics.

There's no problem with a couple of lyrics, or lyrics in one chapter, or whatever in a non-songfic, but what you're doing is outsteping even the boundaries of most song fics in the way that you're using the lyrics so that you don't have to tell the story yourself, explain the emotions yourself. You're a good writer, and I hate to see you cheating yourself out of actually writing by using other people's work.

Please don't respond defensively to this. Rememeber that even though, yes, this is your fic and you understand what you're trying to do with it more than anyone else, us readers are the one's your trying to get to (or else, why in the world do you bother posting online?). And every once in a while, we might even have something worthwhile to say.

I'm sorry if I've offended you, as that really isn't my goal. I write real reviews because I hope that fanfiction writers are actually trying to improve their writing and I want to do all I can to help them with that. I really do hope you continue to write and improve your writing, just as every other good author. Good luck!


Author's Response: Okay, I've got to say something real quick here. Please don't feel like you're offending me, and PLEASE don't hold back at all (I don't know if you have been or not). I really don't mind getting reviews like yours; I actually really LIKE it. Don't get me wrong, I love reviews like "OMG that wuz sssooooo good," but yours actually have substance. Alright, rant over ;) Maybe it's the fact that I'm both extremely lazy, and extremely stupid to write more than 1 fanfic at a time, but I do, and it's too much for me. I write a chapter for one of them, and by the time I get to the other one, I have to force myself to write. So yeah, I'm probably shirking off with the song lyrics. But I really do like them, and I think having them in there is necessary. But yeah, that's my little reply. Talk to you next chapter, I'm sure ;)

Name: Brittany reviewed A Beautiful Disaster on Aug 06, 2006 07:48 am

Hmmm..never heard that one before. The chapter seemed really short, but i was happy to read it :D hope to read more soon.

Author's Response: Are you, by any chance, from somewhere besides the United States? Because Kelly Clarkson is the American Idol from Season 1, so it would stand to reason that you hadn't heard her songs.