tien_avielle opened this issue on Aug 07, 2003 ยท 13 posts
lavender posted Thu, 07 August 2003 at 10:54 PM
I've been trying to comment on writers' work, but I can't usually find nice things to say about work that I do like, so you can imagine how hard it is to say anything about stuff that I'm indifferent to, and I feel that to compliment someone on their punctuation is worse than nothing at all. And there is so MUCH stuff posted here. I can't comment on everything. I come here to hang out, I already belong to a critique group, and I've got a goal of 1000 words a day to meet, so by the time I get here I don't want to work on writing anymore. So mostly I stick to commenting on Fantasy and Science Fiction prose works that don't already have a lot of comments. What I think people here who want more comments should do, is band together in critique groups, where everyone in the group makes an effort to say something about everyone else's postings. If you make a deal with six other people, to comment on all their works if they will comment on all of yours, that will four or five comments per post, (yes, I can count to six, but trust me, someone always turns up missing, life is like that). Anyone who writes genre fiction prose, or classically rhyming and scanning poetry, and avoids the gruesome, the depressing, or the pornographic (although the TOS pretty much forbids that anyway) is welcome to join me in forming a critique buddy group. Commit to commenting on my postings, (not a hard commitment, to date I have posted all of ONE thing.) and I will commit to commenting on yours. Expertise in anything in particular not required. (Good thing too, I know nothing about art.)