Fic Talk > I Challenge You....
Let the 2014 Summer Reading Challenge Begin!
mare:
Hello! Welcome to check-in Saturday! :)
I am so happy to see that everyone has started on their stories!! This is where I start getting a little more involved in helping to move you guys along. Some of you never need much prodding. (Steph already finished her challenge for the most part!) but others sometimes do, that's where I come in with my friendly reminders. I'll always post them in this thread on Saturdays if I feel like you are behind or maybe have forgotten about some element of the challenge. How I figure this out is simple. I check the reviews and the date the last one was given. If you have read the entire story but are only on chapter 4 of reviews, as far as I am concerned, you're only on chapter 4. If I look at the date of the last review you left and more than a week has gone by I might also give you a reminder to keep reading, or if I check and there are some unanswered reviews I'll also mention them here. If you are still not doing what needs to be done, then I'll be contacting you via reviews of your stories, twitter etc...
I am going to give you some goals to keep you on track a bit. (I would say deadlines, but for whatever reason, that word freaks people out lol)
If you are reading one story at a time: You should have your halfway survey done for the first story, by June 30th at the latest.
If you are reading both stories simultaneously, your halfway surveys (both of them) should be done by July 16th at the latest.
If you are reading only one very long story, your halfway survey should be done by July 16th at the latest.
Once you pass those dates and have not reached those goals, I'll start pretty much bugging you daily about it. LOL *You signed up for this. You knew it was coming!*
Friendly reminders for this week:
- Julilly needs to respond to her reviews for Stockholm Syndrome
- Freedomwriter needs to respond to her review of Dangers of Fluttering
- Rose needs to respond to a review of Walked Out of My Dreams
* Another reminder - if by chance you had selected the option to not receive emails when you get reviews, you might want to change that just for the summer.
Thanks guys! And Happy reading! :)
Carter-Orange:
Final survey (To be completed after finishing the story you are reading)
Name of story: Living At The Top
1) What was the biggest challenge for you when reading this story? It wasn't a challenge at all as I enjoyed it very much :)
2) Did you find yourself looking forward to reading as you were going along or did it feel like homework? It didn't feel like homework at all, in fact I only intended to read a couple of chapters yesterday but found myself reading about ten and finishing it.
3) What was your favorite scene/chapter in the story? I liked it when Brian defied Leighanne and got on a plane to see Nick, it was a great brotherly moment when they saw each other again.
4) Was your favorite character at the halfway point still your favorite at the end? I loved them all equally really.
5) Who was your least favorite character and why? Leighanne, because she was a real bitch most of the time lol
6) If there was a sequel to this story would you be interested in reading it? I really don't think it needs I sequel, but I'd read one.
7) Were you happy with the ending? Yes, it all ended how I wanted it to, although for a moment I thought it wouldn't end happily!
8) Name the biggest surprise in the story and did you see it coming? (If there was one) I suppose Brian getting a backbone and going to see Nick against Leighanne's wishes.
9) What was this stories biggest strength? Mare's story telling ability, the plot and likeability of the characters.
10) What was it's biggest weakness? Can't think of a weakness.
11) Did reading this story make you want to try another one from this author? I've already read quite a few but will read the rest, and have a few that I've started and need to finish.
12) Give us one final review that sums up your experience reading this, maybe explain why you gave the kind of feedback you did or if you would have perhaps picked a different story from this one? I'd say that reading this story was a great experience and I'm glad I picked it. The kind of feedback I gave was mainly my reactions to the events as that's the way I always do it, there was nothing negative to say about the story (sorry, this is exactly what I said for Julilly's, but same applies).
13) Did you prefer the way we did the challenge this year or did you like the pairings better? I'm ok whichever way.
14) Did the author respond to your feedback? Yes, she did.
15) Any final thoughts or questions for the author? No, just that I enjoyed it.
Rose:
Ooh I didn't get the notification email that I got a review, my bad!
julilly:
--- Quote from: mare on June 14, 2014, 06:26:35 AM ---
Friendly reminders for this week:
- Julilly needs to respond to her reviews for Stockholm Syndrome
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I told you Thursday I would do it today and I totally did! :P
mare:
--- Quote from: julilly on June 14, 2014, 11:38:31 AM ---I told you Thursday I would do it today and I totally did! :P
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Good! LOL Still thought I'd give a reminder just in case...
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