How I review the work of other authors

How I review:

First I start reading... if I lose interest, I don't review it.  If I finish it and feel I can give it a four or better, I reread the piece.  Then I write a draft review.  Before I save, I reread the piece again and tweak my review.  My creative writing teacher used to say that before you can learn to write, you must learn to review and critique.

11/2007 I now feel a bit more comfortable on writing.com so If I make it to the end of your work and I do not feel it merrits a four or better, I will rate it, but I will not review it.  Part of this is community feedback because there are some truely wondeful things out there that deserve to shine and cannot if every one gets a four or a five.  Part of this is to give the writer at least some feedback in exchange for having read the piece.