Fic Talk > I Challenge You....
The Review Challenge!
alota_cookin:
--- Quote from: julilly on April 20, 2008, 02:49:31 PM ---As frustrating as it is when someone says "well there's this..." and critiques your work it really is meant to be encouraging. If you just think "oh well, I'm not that good I guess" (I saw your reply to Rose :)) and move on then you can't get better, you've talked yourself down already. Concrit is meant for you to embrace the potential that is in your work because really you've got a really solid idea it just needs some tweaking. I think that you could become everything you want to be as a writer because you do have a good imagination and you have things like an understanding of the English language (which many people who speak English do not...) it just may take some practice.
I rarely give out concrit in the form of reviews unless I think someone really has something and know they are able to do better, so feel special that I'm being nice today... cuz tomorrow... look out lol
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That's what I mean...I can't very well fix anything if someone doesn't tell me what's wrong with it. :D Thus, the reason I ain't mad! I didn't mean it like "oh well, I suck" because I know that there are things I need to work on but no one seems to really tell me what they are. That's why I was like "I'm not surprised". I wasn't expecting there to be so many holes though...I thought it was tighter than that. *shruggs*
The reviews I got from you two are really the only two that had any notes on what was wrong with the story. Since I read this...I have come up with a few ideas of how I might be able to work those holes into part of the story like it was SUPPOSED to be like that. you know what I mean? Like maybe one of the guys was paying the WPP to keep moving Nick around or someone leaked the info to MTV or something. So then it makes it sound like the holes were put there on purpose. Does that make sense? Would that even work? Hmmmm. :-\
So anyways, I'm sorry if it sounded weird. I was, honestly, happy that someone finally told me what was wrong and what needed to be fixed. Sometimes I word things wrong but I really wasn't upset. :D
So thanks, you guys....*gives you brownie* :)
P.S. - remember...you only half scare me Julia. ;)
Sakabelle:
Something that I find also inspires me is when someone is reading my story for the first time and comments on most every chapter with a unique, non generic comment. alota_cookin did this for me with In Pieces and it motived me so much for writing the sequel. :-* Thanks hun!
alota_cookin:
--- Quote from: Sakabelle on April 20, 2008, 07:05:50 PM ---Something that I find also inspires me is when someone is reading my story for the first time and comments on most every chapter with a unique, non generic comment. alota_cookin did this for me with In Pieces and it motived me so much for writing the sequel. :-* Thanks hun!
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I have been making sure to leave reviews when I read because I know it is encouraging. I try to leave personal, detailed reviews for the most part (occasionally I leave a generic one).
Personally, although ANY review is nice, I find the non generic ones seem to be more uplifting.
I am glad you were motivated by it. ;) and, you are very welcome.
julilly:
I'm glad to hear you say that you appreciate the concrit more than the "good chapter, update more!" stuff because I find it frustrating when all someone can say is good chapter... I want to know why they thought it was good, or maybe why they didn't like it. I think it's important to get substance in your feedback, but there's a lot of people who only want the praise.
Rose:
Yay, I'm glad to hear you're not upset. I think sometimes every author at one point needs it. And I don't do concrit very often, but your idea has really good potential. I know I rattled off a lot of stuff, but I wouldn't have done it if I didn't like the premise to begin with. :) Or if I didn't feel like you couldn't improve :D
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