The Trial of Juno Saga [PG-13]

[Suicune's Fire]

Cleaning out typos from a story written years ago is a lot like pulling weeds. You feel like you get most of them, but there's always a few that seem to slip by. :P

But yeah, I don't make most of these mistakes anymore. Still, thanks for pointing out those weeds. Hopefully I got all of them. :P

Oh, exactly. I went through Through the Eyes of a Flareon when I decided to post the chapters on...DeviantART, I think? And also here. So I understand wholeheartedly. xD Personally I find it harder to pick out my own typos and grammar mistakes than I do for other people's, which is odd, but probably common.

When I saw this, I was like... whoa, have I really been doing it wrong this entire time!?

After looking it up on a whole slew of Pokémon sites, I think you're right, but darn it, why do so many sites have it the other way around!? That, and it's really confusing whether someone is referring to any type of Poké Ball, or whether they're referring to the most basic one that you find in the beginning of the game. Imagine if instead of calling an apple an apple, it was just called a "fruit" instead. "Oh, want some fruit?" The other person wouldn't know whether to expect apples or expect any kind of fruit!

Also, hate to say it, but ugh, this is going to be a very tricky habit to correct when I've been doing it this way for almost... ah... two decades. Well, I'll try my best after I Ctrl+F & Replace this whole puppy. XD

Ahaha, don't worry, I've looked it up many a time. Also gone into games to double check how they're written there. Honestly I think the other sites never checked. I used to write it as one word as well until I looked it up. xD Yeah, I understand what you mean. I think that if someone meant another kind of poké ball, they'd specify. And if they were talking about all poké balls, hopefully they'd make it clear too. It's a little annoying they don't have a "fruit" equivalent. xD

Lol I totally getcha. I'm so thankful for Ctrl + F for that reason. XD

Yep, I don't make this mistake too often anymore and I broke out of the habit. Bloody dandelions! I'll admit that most of the time, when I proofread, I'm focusing maybe 75% on the actual storyline content, depth, and details, and only 25% on the actual punctuation, grammar, and all that jazz. For example, while proofreading this again, I caught a mistake where Randy starts with the necklace, but then somehow takes it from Jeff. When it comes to missing a comma here and there, yeah, it's easy to overlook a dot that should have had a tail to it. XD

Makes total sense. x) I just thought to put the detail of "you probably know this is wrong" in there in case you thought I was trying to give you a grammar lesson you were already well aware of. xD I remember when I first learnt about doing commas at the end of speech and following with a lowercase letter (for 'said' or whatever came next), and boy...there were a lot of corrections. XD

As far as rewriting goes, kind of did, kind of didn't. I would say it's undergone a heck of a lot of revision, but some of the original stuff was kept. Rewriting totally from the ground up would be a pretty daunting task, so I figured just really making the best edits possible would be the way to go. But yeah, a bit of the old shabbiness still remains, but not intentionally. Think of it like an old house getting modern makeovers.

And it's funny, while I'm posting this on PXR, I'm also posting in on Bulbagarden, and some people there feel the summary reveals too much. Truth is, I kind of had to do that, because in a previous time I posted Trial of Juno, I think people dropped out of reading it because they didn't like Jake as a bully and didn't give it a chance to have things change! So it was a necessity to show all this is really just a precursor to something much bigger.

In any case, I'm glad you're enjoying the story, and thank you very much for your help with pointing out those weeds! XD[/QUOTE]
That's entirely what I meant. x) Keeping the original but just rewriting it by going through and adding, subtracting, and everything in between. That's what I do when I rewrite. Unless the story's really small or a complete disaster, I wouldn't expect someone to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. xD I mean, that's just illogical when most of it is absolutely fine and already there. Just needs fine tuning. x)

Honestly I thought it was a little spoilery, but I understand what you mean. xD I have that difficulty with my stories too sometimes. I haaaaaaate giving away spoilers or reading them, but sometimes it's necessary. And you've got all the juicy content in between, so it's not like every detail is spoiled. So no worrie!

Absolutely! :D I'll do it whenever I see one. xD


@Pokemon Trainer Sarah I understand where you're coming from, but I have a theory! Maybe they separated the words because, well, first off, poké balls came into the games long before a whole lot of other poké- things (aside from the dex). They probably chose to change the formal after that, but just kept poké ball how it was.



The other thing I thought of was that they began with not only regular poké balls, but great balls, ultra balls, master balls, etc. Compiling those words looks a little silly (ultraball looks stupid xD), and to keep consistency, they probably separated every first and second word, including the regular poké one. So I dunno. Maybe it's a combination. Maybe there was some other deeper meaning, but who knows. xD