I haven't been commenting on gallery submissions because when I do a critique, especially on longer pieces, I usually take up a lot of space in my comments. I treat Gallery works as finished submissions while posts here as drafts. I also read and re-read drafts a few times before I critique them, so it's usually a few days after a post before I comment on them. Unfortunately, there have been several cases of someone leaving an honest, polite critique on a gallery piece and being raked over the coals for it. There have been IMs to Mods complaining that so-and-so is out to get them because they left a "Great" instead of an "Excellent" on their work. In a few cases, the artist turned around and started trolling the person who'd left an honest comment on the piece. rolls eyes On the other hand, anyone who gets offended by an honest repsonse for a work posted in a forum tends to get slapped down by all the other forum members, so people treat forum posts as safer for real critiques. I haven't seen any problems with critiques in the Writers' Gallery, but I know the problems from other Galleries have made people shy to post honestly in this Gallery as well. What you might want to do is post a request for a critique here and link to your Gallery post. You can also request critiques in the Writers' Forum and post the URL of the thread under your submission in the Gallery in the comments area. That way, you get more viewings by being in the Gallery and a better chance of critiques by posting in the Writers' Forum as well. I think people will feel more comfortable that you are serious about wanting critiques if you do both. Hope this helps! Cres