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Reading challenge suggestion box and new rules for next year!

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Alexsgirl_ritz:
Concrit is sometimes hard to take but I really feel lucky when I receive them. It meant that the person reading your story cares enough about you and wanted you to improve and be a better writer. I actually want to submit The Other Side of NC for the reading challenge to have concrit reviews but it is not finished and it would not be fair to the reader to make them read unfinished story.

mare:
I have really been considering that as another possible rule for next summer but I'm on the fence about it. Whether to make t a mandatory thing that the story submitted is complete or not.

Does anyone else have an opinion on this? I mean I see pros and cons for both ways.

Rose:
I can see both sides. Only one story I submitted was incomplete but it was SO close, I figured it wouldn't matter. And I do think the feedback when it was steady was helping kick our buts in gear and now we only have a few chapters before finishing. I think the rule should be it must be at the halfway point at least. This way you have a good feel of the plot and where it will likely go so you can give proper concrit.

RokofAges75:
I think it's better when the story is complete, but you might keep some people from participating by making that a rule.  I think, like Rose said, as long as the story is far enough for the reader to get a good sense of the plot and where it's going, it still works for the point of this challenge.

mare:
That's what I have it as now, and I do think it does help kick start people if they are in the process of updating it. At the same time, it is hard when you are reading something incomplete and doing the challenge because you feel almost an obligation to have to follow through to the end and people might randomly start adding chapters while you are reading which might also mess people's reading patterns up or they might not ever finish the story and leave you eternally hanging lol

On the other side, reading a complete story is great but then again sometimes it might be too late to hear that concrit but I guess that depends on if the author is actively still writing or not because you could take that concrit from one story and just translate it into some of your others that you are currently working on. Even still as a writer, I would probably get more out of concrit from something in progress than I would something complete but as a reader I would prefer something complete.

Maybe I'll make a poll. Why not? Polls seem to be in these days! LOL

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