✎ TheSinfulPen's Help & Review Shop!

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Hello!
 

This is TheSinfulPen's Help & Review shop.

In this little corner of Asianfanfics, I want to review fanfics and give my helping hand to all of the writers out there (young or veterans)! 
Mainly, I wanted to show my love and appreciation to the writers of the Seulrene Community, which are all talented beyond idea and some are, dare I say criminally, underrated. This is not to say that I can’t review a more well-known fic, there is no criteria for that.

You will probably see a lot of Seulrene here, perhaps a small Wenjoy or two, but for now my focus will be within the community where I started.

Also, this is a Constructive Feedback center. All my feedback comes from the heart with the biggest desire to help and to appreciate, it's never meant to be destructive or petty or nitpicky. No one gets anywhere by being beaten down with foul words, let alone about something they absolutely love. A positive reinforcement breeds positive outcomes, violence breeds violence. I have no interest in putting people's work down, I have total interest in celebrating them and being friends with fantastic authors.

 

There's that.

 

 

「Small disclaimer: Very possibly disorganized! 」

Foreword

ABOUT ME.

A lot of you guys probably don’t know about me, so I might as well just show my credentials so you guys don’t think I’m actually a robot which I totally am—.

I am TheSinfulPen (My friends call me Nat, I go by Nat but you can also call me Nat) and I am author of some well-known fics in the Seulrene community, mostly in the area as evidenced by the name. I’ve developed my style and explored many during my time (almost a decade ago as of right now, which is March 14th, 2020). I’ve befriended a lot of authors in the Seulrene community and a good chunk of other people on Twitter, authors from all kinds of colors, prose, styles and ideas. All of them have been a pleasure to talk to, and even more of a pleasure has been to help them and to receive their help in my own mental turmoils. My persistent hobby to help people has gotten a few of my friends out of their own turmoils and even by helping them I have understood a good chunk of things and since then I grew exponentially.

Everyone needs a hand every once in a while, even stubborn bulls like me.

And that's it. Oh, one more thing: I don’t want you to talk to me as ‘Author-nim’ though the term is infinitely adorable. No, I’m your friend, a fellow fan just like you. I don’t want people to treat me like a celebrity, therefore I don’t want them to treat me like the all-knowing-master. I’m alright with being seen as a mentor, a godmother, but never above anyone. I’m just a gal that has a good understanding of how I got to where I am and how to make it easier for the aspiring writers. Think of me as your friend, because you probably are to me, already!

 

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Still heavily under construction. Credits, help and graphics will be added accordingly, uwu!

 

♦ INDEX / CHAPTER LIST.

1) Introduction.

2) Advice #1 (Heck the Rules).

3) Rec & Review Zone #1 (Irisdecence).

 

 

 

 

 

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Misskittyrose #1
Are u guys open ouo?
p_ha_ine #2
Chapter 3: <span class='smalltext text--lighter'>Comment on <a href='/story/view/1432101/3'>Rec & Review Zone #1 · Ir...</a></span>
something that i have notice that bigger attention to certain stories can depend also on how big the fandom of the artist, the quality of and certain tropes that never gets old (rich settings, wolves vampires fluff) which is super fine and all but i agree. fixating yourself too much on this point might hamper that creativity streak and for writing to become joyless, Ha!
SkyeButterfly #3
Chapter 2: !!!!!!!!!!! my head is a bunch of exclamation points!! I like your points here and completely agree with them.

I always felt like I was writing stuff that no one but me liked (crackships between two idols who've had like one measly interaction, bratty OCs that ruin plots and are uber-annoying, stories about an attractive male idol who doesn't have a set love interest within the first chapter HAHA etc), and though it was disheartening to see that not everyone appreciated it, I REALLY LOVED what I was writing regardless that I wasn't abiding by common rules/tropes.

This was very well written and I'm glad I stumbled upon this and your profile!!!!! I'm kinda in the mood to follow you and your stories now since you're well-spoken and I bet that translates nicely into your work ♥ ALSO I just saw the "and whatever you do, don't hit that upvote" afhadfhak well it's too late HAHAHA. I'm looking forward to more advice you come up with!!!!
JaeKnight #4
Chapter 2: I love this! Idk how to mince my words, but i really do like your advice. As a self-proclaimed non-conformist, it's a tough world out there with people keep doing the same thing over and over again, and surprisingly, people still keep eating the same thing over and over again. But nothing's wrong with that at all. Maybe something's wrong with me XD That's their cup of tea, okay, i respect. That's how the world works, I suppose. But i do hope people would challenge themselves to bend the rules, even just a little (better if a lot), because there's still a lot to discover for...idk, self-discovery and amazingness, and even help their audience open their mind or explore things. Even only on small platforms like AFF. But i also understand that everyone, including me, have some guilty pleasures----it's a pleasure after all eue

I'm not sure if these are the movies. But there are 2 movies on the top of my head that starts with the end and ends with the beginning kind of concept---"Memento" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Hilary Duff's Cinderella Story is also my fave! And hands down, Alex Delarge...one of my favorite characters all-time! And don't get me started with the director of that (life-changing) film. Thanks for this. I love to see people who thinks this way and yo, very well written.
Catmanager #5
Chapter 2: I really like this advice because it's so honest and relatable! A lot of people put themselves into boxes as writers, especially on sites for fan work, and get stuck when it feels as though readers only want that sort of content so it becomes nerve-wreaking to try to break from that or the even the opposite!
This is really a wonderful set of tips and a definite way to encourage writers to write comfortably whether it be following tropes/cliches or working directly outside of them without being condescending or forceful.
Thank you for this first set of advice! It is a very refreshing and realistic way of saying how to experiment with your work!
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