~*~Username and Title: Annachan. While I found your description of how you came to have this name to be rather boring, I like the way this name flows. Annachan. Say it aloud--doesn't it sound lovely and flowing? As your for your title, despite your description of it, and your belief that it suits you, it annoys me. It's trite, overdone, and it has numbers in it. Ew. -2/5.

~*~Thoughts While The Page Was Loading: Oh, what a soft, pretty layout. Wait. Where are the links? Oh, clever! -3/5.

The Starlit-Lily Factor:

~*~Does Your Soul Shine Through? Yes, I would say so. You're a teenage girl, one of the many that infest Diaryland. You're basically friendly, intelligent, sheltered, and loving. You're wrapped up in your own little world for the most part, as far as I can tell, and you're quite dedicated to your diary, which I find rather cute. Do you sparkle? No, sadly. Do you even really shine or glow? No. -30/35.

~*~Are You Observant Of Beauty? I imagine that the number of entries out of the seven hundred and forty-four that you currently have availible for reading that I didn't read will be the ones to contain what I'm looking for in this section of the review, but mostly, I'm going to say no. You are horrendously longwinded, rather like a bagpiper who just won't stop, but you're mostly being long-winded about things in your life, and how you're feeling, as far as I can tell. You write well--but not often enough about the beauty beyond your little realm. -10/35.

Layout:

This layout is beautiful. It was designed by you, and I'm quite impressed. The image is soft, and gentle, and lovely--it seems to reflect your style of writing quite well. The font is readable--I wish you would change the overflow style on your table, so that it didn't keep scrolling and scrolling, and so I could continue to see the lovely image. However, the image's words don't make any sense. How does what he does--this ambiguous "he"--affect you? Is your diary all about a guy, is that what you're telling me? -15/20.

Navigation:

I love your image-links. I think they're gorgeous. However, they don't really read left to right, in the proper, expected Diaryland order, and that bothers me. It should be, starting with the top left box, Index, Older...link link link, ending with Diaryland at the top. This different order just confuses me. -7/10.

Content:

~*~Your Content: I read enough to give me a headache. That being said...

Your life is fairly interesting, I'll give you that. You seem like a typical teenage girl in a lot of ways, like myself in some, and completely different in others. You seem more sheltered than I am, perhaps. You seem more obsessed with teenage romances than I am. You take loyalty and honesty every bit as seriously as I do, though, and for that, I do respect you.

You write a lot about your life. You write about your friends, which is always interesting--well, mainly because I enjoy seeing how little the melodramas of the typical teenager change from city to city, from state to state--you write about your crushes, your parents, your dreams. You daylog a lot, which is a crime in Diaryland, as you well know. However, it's your diary. Such is the way things are.

However. For the love of the Goddess, you write in such a monotonous, longwinded, dragging manner. You write on, and on, and on. I myself go into detail on subjects in my diary, but Goddess, I would shoot myself if I were as draggy as you are. Be a little more concise, please, so that it's not quite so painful to scroll through all your entries. If you're going to ramble about your day, make it as concise as possible, so that those seven hundred and forty-four don't seem quite so painful.

By all means, don't sacrifice the quality of your diction and tone--just, please write with a little more vivre.

It was a mediocre diary. Not really good--not really bad, in my personal opinion. So, I'll give it a just score. -49/70.

~*~Your Grammar and Spelling: Beautiful, which impressed me. I saw almost no errors. -10/10.

Extras:
Oh, God, it took me as long to get through your Extras as it does for me to do a normal diarist's review. I enjoyed them. -15/10.

Will I Return?

Probably not. I was bored by your diary, in truth--I might come back to admire your layout from time to time, and to see how things are going with you.

Comments:

The secret to being a good diarist comes in having entries that both please and suit you, and that interest complete strangers.

Total:131/200.

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