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August 2, 2006

My thoughts on the 'Highest Rated' and 'Most Popular' lists.

Ahh dear sweet writers hoping to come up with yet another unoriginal blather and see it floating high and mighty on one of the lists. How insanely proud of yourself you will be.

Sorry to shatter your hopes and dreams. Most of the stories here are complete bull. I do not intend personal flaming or offence to anyone in particular, just bad writers in general. I'm not classifying myself as a good writer though, nothing I post here is good writing, it is fair writing.

Let me start with when a person first joins Quizilla with high hopes of making it onto one of the lists. They write and write disregarding all basics of HTML, full sentances, proper grammar and good spelling. They use chatspeak and denote thoughts with *..*. Excuse me but what? You have people dishing out Harry Potter fan fictions, and they are using chatspeak? Does JK Rowling use chatspeak in her books? Would the HP books sell that much or be half that thick if their author wrote something like this : 'Harry looked at Hermione and they nodded, jumping into the room he was ready to fight the Dark Lord.' Please, are you kidding me? 'Harry looked at Hermione'. You want to see how that simple little sentance can be made so much better? I'll show you. 'Harry took a glance at his curly haired friend, her face was a mask of worry and fierce determination. Her mouth was set in a grim line and sweat beaded her brow. Brown eyes met his and he could see the determination in them and something else, there was no fear. Hermione knew he was going to make it no matter what.' I transformed one meagre little four word sentance into that. Wonderful ain't it?

I'm getting off topic. So you join Quizilla and write with no skill or even punctuation and then find a writer whose already on the Highest Rated (HR for short) and bombard them asking them to read your stories. You could also chance upon a good writer in the Recently Added and ask them to read your stories.

Personally I would be more than happy to read a good story, taking into consideration you are probably in highschool with a good grasp of grammar and spelling. Even if you did not know any HTML, you can spell right? Wrong. Spelling is horrible. Grammar worse.

So for all the newbies, learn to spell please. And just for the record. Shaking your head is a negation, it means NO. Nodding means yes. People get on the HR and don't know the difference between a nod and a shake of the head. Is everyone bloody daft here?

So, what gets you on the HR? It's actually very easy. Make all the fourteen year old girlies happy. Give them a story where Draco Malfoy turns into a perfect knight-in-shining-armor and woos the character (which they defintely imagine is them) and they fall hopelessly in love. Draco Malfoy or any other extremely desirable character. And if it's a melodramatic highschool story it's about some underdog girl (probably listens to emo music) with a wacky hairstyle and always wears hoodies. This girl also happens to have the most popular/hot guy at school lusting after her. Unrealistic drivel. You want a good highschool story? Ever read Sweet Valley High? Now that's a good highschool story right there. Not about some girl who is supposed to be insanely unnatractive but has hot guys chasing after her.

My question is, when you come here to write. Is it because you love writing and want to be the best you can be? Or is it because you want to get on some list or another? I am not putting you down for wanting to be on the HR at all, I'm doing it myself, read my stories they are pointless drivel as well. Nothing I would show anyone but people on Quizilla.

What I want above all is to see the HR list full of stories that deserve to be there. Really deserve it. Not co-written by little teenyboppers fulfilling their wildest fantasies of boys and famous band-members. Gerard Way is going to turn fourty in a few years. FOURTY. He is happily with a woman right now, a WOMAN, not a GIRL. And if I'm wrong about the woman it's because I goddamn don't care, I listen to whole different other genres of music. So basically, Gerard Way is not going to fall hopelessly in love with a nineteen year old who happens to work for him. Gerard Way is a human being like all human beings and do you really think he's going to walk into Starbucks and immediately ask the girl behind the counter out? Does any self-respecting male do that? "Hey so your aprons real cute, lets go out!" Are you for real?

I really really want stories to be as good as they can be. I swear this kind of drivel does not deserve to be on the HR at all! A story. What self-respecting writer calls this one sentance thing a story?
Example:
'Kyle looked at me, his eyes were so beautiful I could melt in them.

He gave me a small smile.

His smile was so beautiful.

STOP DAYDREAMING AND CONCENTRATE'
end of example.

In the name of all that is alive and breathing, what the hell is that?! One line sentances! WHAT?! Is that even writing? If I gave that to my English teacher he would give me a E! You call yourselves writers? How can you even hold that title with pride? JRR Tolkien! Robert Jordan! Raymond E. Feist! Those are writers. Not little teenage girls writing SENTANCES and calling it a story and getting on the HR!

I'm hyperventalating here. It's mindless I swear. I don't even read anything on the HR. I remember when really good stories were there like 'I'm a girl in an all boys boarding school?!' now theres a good story. Her writing style was pretty good, there was decent description and the storyline was pretty valid.

I can understand why people would find ideas like being trapped in a Vampires castle romantic and glorious. Seriously though, do you think vampires are romantic? And would take an average human girl (who listens to AFI, Hawthorne Heights and wears hoodies) and keep her captive? Why on earth? Unless you have a decent reason like she is decendant from royalty and lives with adoptive parents which is somewhat reasonable. Also why would Sesshoumaru, a human-hating DEMON, want to sleep with or fall in love with his human MAID?! I realise these fantasies are very lovely and make you tingly inside but please, stick with reality. Fiction does not mean blowing all sense out the window!

For now this is all I have to say. Flame me as much as you want but a little request, if you choose to take anger out on anything I've said do it in a message and not by attacking my stories. Even though they are the usual useless drivel that I see left and right (I chose to make them like that because I tried to write real stories and the response was horrible) do not go and vote '1' on all my stories because you hate what I've said here.
I do not mind if you wish to discuss or debate on what I've said but all hatemail will either amuse me or just make me realise how truely pathetic little fourteen year old teeny boppers can be. Spare yourselves the embarassment and don't hate mail. Again if you want to have a decent, civilised, mature discussion I'm open for comments.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion, don't like it and have valid reasons go ahead and talk about it. Don't like it and are going to hatemail, well I hope you burn and rot in hell for eternities to come.

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