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Let the Summer Reading Commence! :O)

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Purpura Lipstick:
I am shocked that you found typos as you reread it Julie. .  ;) 

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on August 01, 2012, 04:40:24 PM ---I am shocked that you found typos as you reread it Julie. .  ;) 

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LOL Even Grammar Nazis make typos!  27 of them, to be exact!  I highlighted them as I found them on my Kindle... now I just need to go back and actually fix them in the story and the versions that are online.  Most of them are just missing words that my eyes skipped over when proofreading.

mare:
^ that's the only thing I noticed and I smiled every time I saw one lmao

mare:

--- Quote from: simple sue on August 01, 2012, 04:38:18 PM ---5) Any final thoughts or comments concerning the reading challenge and the person who read your stuff?

I don't care for the pairing system because I felt as though I really didn't connect with my partner.  I realize it is a challenge but I think maybe taking a list w/ a short summary and link, let the reader decide  what they want to read then let the person supervising the challenge know so they and can take it out of the running until there are no more to choose from so we really don't know whom is reading our story until the reviews start coming in. Just a thought. 

comes around again.

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Do you mean just show you guys summaries without mentioning whose story it is and then once you decide then you find out who it belongs to? like a secret santa but with reading?

That's something else to consider. The only problem with that is if everyone just picks something they like, it kind of defeats the challenge aspect of it and then there is also the very good possiblity that there would be a few stories that no one would pick. But thanks for the suggestion! I appreciate it and will take it into consideration when working things out for next summer :)

RokofAges75:
That's kind of how we did it last year, except we didn't get to choose; Mare chose for us based on what we said in our surveys at the beginning.  The challenge part of it is that you read something you normally wouldn't read, so I think it's okay to be assigned or paired up with someone.  It's the risk you take when you enter the challenge.

That said, I think the original idea for this challenge last year was for a reading duel, in which you could challenge someone to read one of your stories (someone who normally wouldn't), but you had to read one of theirs in return.  Doing it that way would be more like the partner thing this year, but also give you some choice in who you challenged.  And the person you challenged to a duel would always have the option to accept or decline the challenge.

You still might have the issue of some people not getting challenged or always being turned down.  But I guess maybe those people should start looking at their own stories and the type of feedback they give and wonder why that might be.  No one wants to read a story that they can hardly comprehend because it doesn't follow English conventions, and no one wants to put thought into giving feedback and constructive criticism, only to get two-word reviews in return.  Feedback is a vital part of the challenge.

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