My dear beta reader, also known as my best friend in FFnet, told me that my writing style is now different.

Well, I believe in her because she has read every fanfics I made - the published ones and the none published one. We even discuss about our works very often. That's why she must have known my writing style better than the others. Although the one that she called as different is the one that she hasn't read fully yet :P

I've grown into liking to put long descriptions. And she told me that I love to use uncommon sentences, which she called as 'heavy and semi-classical literature sentences' (she said that my sentences are sastra-like, if I translate it to English, the meaning would be quite different, so I choose semi-classical instead). She told me perhaps it's because of the serious plot.

Actually I didn't realize about those changes before she pointed them out. Maybe that's because my newest fanfic has a very complicated theme with noble characters. That's why I must use those semi-formal or even very formal lines in my fanfic. (Oh I'm not talking about Corda fanfics here). 

 Another reason is because the readers mostly are American and European, with English as their primary language. That forced me to do better with my English, and it made me happy when one of the American readers, who becomes my beta now, said that she likes my writing style. I know I still have a lot of spaces to improve, and hearing about it, made me want to improve further.

Oh, one more person pointed out my changing. She's only an anonymous reviewer who never read any of my other fanfics before, but she said that my writing style's very mature. That made me quite happy ^_^

Anyway, after I read again my Corda fanfics, I really don't like them. I know I don't have the time to revise all of them, so I just wanted to delete them. But my readers seem to like them, so I think I'll leave them like that for the sake of my readers. But honestly, I can't stand it if I compare my Corda fics with my newest fic. Maybe I should just close my eyes and pretend to read nothing, lol.
Next time, when I write the continuation of my Corda fanfics, I can guarantee that everything would be different (my writing style, I mean). I don't know if you'd realize it or not though :P.

Actually I'm getting bored with pure romance stories. That's why I don't really into Corda lately. I need more conflicts, like political issues or something as heavy as that. I also still love horror stories, and I can say that I'd definitely continue my horror/suspense Corda fanfic, Countless Nightmares.

Well, it's been more than a month already since I left Corda archive. I'm still writing for my Thinerizu joint project, but I never read any fanfics again in there. I don't know what kind of stories they have now, I'm totally blind. I only read my beta's fanfics. That's why, if you want me to read and leave a review to you, please don't hesitate to ask me. I'll drop by to your fics and try to leave meaningful reviews.

You know, I found constructive criticisms are important, that's why rather than leaving random praises, I'll try to leave constructive criticisms instead. For that reason, only those who are ready to receive my reviews, should ask me to read their works. Don't worry, I would never leave flames since I hate flames too.

Oh, perhaps you are confused about my newest fic? Well, I won't tell you what kind of fic it is. Because I notice there are several authors and none-authors who have silly grudge on me. If I tell everyone openly about my newest fic, I'm afraid they'll spread their annoying wings to insult me even in another archive. So, I'd only tell a few selected people, who have gained my trust. Sorry, but I have to do it to protect myself from irresponsible people out there.

In that new fandom, I don't make friends, I stay low as a new comer author and no one shall know my real name. So what I receive in that new fandom, I could proudly say that it's pure because of my writing skills and plots. No more insults about having a lot of friends would give me a lot of reviews. And it relieves me that I gained a lot of reviews too in that fandom without making any friends.

One thing I really like about that new fandom is, people seem to like giving meaningful reviews. I don’t talk about constructive criticisms (well, I haven't received one so far), but they share their opinions and give me clues about what points I did nicely, and what they think about those points. It's nice to read them, it made me wanna hear more from them and work hard to update ASAP.

Ah okay, I just came back from my trip and now I utter my rambling unstoppably. I think it's enough for now. See you next time~!

There are always pros and contras about this one.

In my opinion, asking someone to read and review your stories is normal.
We write so that people can read our works, and we publish our works to get feedbacks so that we could know what people think about our writing.

It's just like if we write something, we ask our friend or sister to read and give their opinion, if there’s something we should correct, etc.
And that's what reviews are for.

Some authors get the wrong idea, thinking that they don't need reviews (or saying like that, but within their heart they DO want reviews). If not why should they publish their works in the first place? We publish our works because we want to know what others think about our works.

We all need reviews. Without reviews, we'll lose our passion eventually. Reviews will give us the courage to continue ASAP.
That’s why, it really isn't a sin to ask your friends to read your works and leave their reviews. If there's someone who think that she/he doesn't mind if no one read it and give her/his work reviews, that person must be a hypocrite.

Although these days I'm not really that excited anymore to get reviews, I mean, If I get a lot, that's good, if not, well, I don't really mind. But of course I LOVE reviews. Reviews are my candy ;)

Constructive criticisms, many reviewers don't understand what are constructive criticisms (let’s call it as conscrits). To mention the author's weaknesses and give her/him the explanation in how to be better, that's what we called as conscrits. Conscrits are something that given with tact, with politeness, NOT with insults. If the reviewer write something like this:

"Your story needs more details on blah, blah, blah, and you should try to make it like this... Keep on writing, you’ll be better."

That's a conscrit.

But if a reviewer writes something like this:
 
"Your story’s lacking of details, blah blah blah, very boring and not worth to read."

Or

"Your grammars are bad and I'll give you reviews until 50 to correct it." (Hell, have you nothing better to do than giving 50 reviews? Go make an account and PM the author!)

Those are considered as insults.

Got it? Conscrits and flames are different. I believe the reviewers themselves are aware of that. That's why they prefer to hide themselves behind the anonymous reviewer feature. They know that they are insulting the author, but insisting that they give the author a conscrit. That's what we call as hypocrite.

Please read it here:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5052769/1/Searching_For_You