Subject: Ah, critiquing blues...
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Posted on: 2015-12-07 23:01:00 UTC
There was one Warriors fic I found that summarized the first two chapters in a run-on sentence and was an Agnst!fic for sure, all in the summary. And then it had to say at the end, "I suck at summaries!" Seriously, I'm sick of that sentence. If we can't trust the author with a summary, why should we trust them with the story?
Fortunately, the story had only three very short chapters so far. So I PMed and told the author what I said about the summary-suck thing, said it was not a good idea at all to have the summary all in caps, and not to have it sound like you are begging for the audience to pity the MC. Thankfully, he said he could see some sense in all of that. Then I told him that to best fix the problems, he would have to delete his story and start over, but that I would help him in any way I could as a beta on Fanfiction.net as he rewrote.
His response: "Ooookaaaaay...?"
And there has been no reply from him ever since. Such a shame. :(