Post by Tensleep on Apr 24, 2007 0:07:51 GMT -5
Hey there, everyone.
In my time I have gotten a fair number of reviews and I have found that a few things are quite helpful.
Firstly, there're reviews that tell you what you did well. Transitions, characterizations, quotes, funny sentences and the like. I like these because they feed my ego up just a little. But what makes them great is when the review follows through with something to help me.
For example, I once got a review praising my characters and my way with words and sarcastically funniness way of writing. But apparently I had no idea how to use the words loose, lose, choose, chose, where, and were. Looking back I have to laugh at this. I had no clue. Anyways, the reviewer suggested I take a crash course on all these before I got any further with my writing since I was up at two or three stories at that point and just motoring along.
Even though I was embarrassed, I was really glad someone finally pointed it out. I was about a year or so into my writing and went back and did a lot of editing because of it. I added things, changed wordings and figured out some punctuations and actually felt like people could read what I wrote without having a stroke trying to figure it out.
So I think the best kind of reviews concentrate on something positive and follow through with some helpful hints to help the author improve. Embarrassment passes and I learned something. What else can you ask for?
What does everyone else look for in a review?
See ya in the funny papers!!!
Tens
In my time I have gotten a fair number of reviews and I have found that a few things are quite helpful.
Firstly, there're reviews that tell you what you did well. Transitions, characterizations, quotes, funny sentences and the like. I like these because they feed my ego up just a little. But what makes them great is when the review follows through with something to help me.
For example, I once got a review praising my characters and my way with words and sarcastically funniness way of writing. But apparently I had no idea how to use the words loose, lose, choose, chose, where, and were. Looking back I have to laugh at this. I had no clue. Anyways, the reviewer suggested I take a crash course on all these before I got any further with my writing since I was up at two or three stories at that point and just motoring along.
Even though I was embarrassed, I was really glad someone finally pointed it out. I was about a year or so into my writing and went back and did a lot of editing because of it. I added things, changed wordings and figured out some punctuations and actually felt like people could read what I wrote without having a stroke trying to figure it out.
So I think the best kind of reviews concentrate on something positive and follow through with some helpful hints to help the author improve. Embarrassment passes and I learned something. What else can you ask for?
What does everyone else look for in a review?
See ya in the funny papers!!!
Tens