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Two and a half stars . . . This is a confession. Someone reviewed an entry in my NaNo project and gave it two and a half stars. Here is what they had to say: Good concept, but there is too much wordiness and nondescript words. The analogies are lacking detail and seem to jump around. Improper verb usage in the following: What are the various ways that people handle anger? Seething, exploding, rationally, irrationally, practically, wisely, overtly, covertly . . . Some of these words do not express a way people handle anger, but rather, are synonyms for anger. The consistently short sentence structure and line breaks after every sentence disrupts the flow immensely and prevents fluid reading and cohesive thought. Hope this helps! I had shared a link to this entry in Scroll telling folks that something really kewl had happened to me in the middle of writing this entry . . . I found my voice. I had gone back and changed the part where the real me was writing to a blue font . . . posted a link to the entry . . . and asked if anyone could see the difference. "How do you handle your anger?"  I didn't get any answers to that question. Not that many folks looked at it. I did get this review . . . and two and a half stars. I tried not to let it bother me . . . after all, this writing and all the writing that I have done in my NaNo project is pretty much crap . . . so it isn't worth any more than two and a half stars . . . but then . . . it is NaNo . . . and I thought that quantity was the goal . . . and the quality could come later. I tried to act as though it didn't bother me. Here is what I wrote back: Thank you for taking the time to read and review my entry. This was just a piece of free-writing . . . not intended to be viewed as a completed work . . . but I do totally love that you took the time to read it! Thank you for your time and for your feedback! Write On! I lied . . . it did bother me . . . especially when I realized that the two and a half stars shows up as the rating for the entire book . . . not just for that entry. It still hurts a little . . . I still try to comfort myself with the fact that it is a realistic assessment of the quality of writing in this piece overall . . . but . . . It still hurts . . . So I am sharing that hurt here today . . . Three stars wouldn't have hurt . . . two and a half did . . . This might have been a time to have been more generous with those stars . . . This one time . . . ~ ~ ~ ruwth ~ ~ ~   Edited on 4/10/16 to remove outdated links. |
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