Review for Xanthic Growlithe Contract

Xanthic Growlithe Contract

(#) IWCT 2007-04-24

I know I've already given you reviews for chapters 1-5 on this piece, but I'd just like to throw my hat in the ring in response to KitsuenoRai on the capitalization thing.

Names of species (common name or Latin) are not capitalized in English. No one would type "then the Human turned around," or "the Cat jumped to the roof." Unless an author was cruel enough to name a random stantler "Stantler" there is no reason to capitalize pokemon species.

Other than that, I'm glad you're switching over from FF.N, or at least expanding the reading base. I'd forgotten how short the early chapters were.

Also, is the tense switch between the scene with the "sallow pokemon" and Elliot's little hike intentional, and supposed to tell the reader something? Or did you just forget that you were writing in the present tense?

As always, I love how you point out the incongruities of the games versus real life. Reading the first chapter brings me back to when I first read "Xanthic" (I really shouldn't have started with
"Johto" first, though. That was a mistake on my part), and it clicked, and I grinned.

I'm still trying to figure out what Xanthic means, off and on. No luck yet, but I'll keep trying until you give it away for the rest of us lesser mortals.

=^.^= IWCT (MorriganFearn on FF.N)