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This is a great topic River! Yes, I am impressed. Fun! What tools do you keep handy while reviewing? Coffee, snacks, Tylenol, wine, a dictionary, cigarettes, or something altogether different? What is in your tool-box? Boy have they changed! It used to be cigarettes, coffee, and cigarettes and more coffee. Since I quit smoking, I've taken to holding and playing around with my full-size stylus pen like I used to my cigarettes. Unconsciously, of course– just something I realized while answering this question. I am a key pounder. I go thru PC keyboards quickly, and my iPads (while more resilient fer sure) take a beating. Anyways, I have a set of three kept near each device and PC. My kitten Luke likes to try and steal them, but I refuse to let him and so far I've been lucky  And I keep a toy mousie handy to throw for Luke because he's obsessed with playing fetch and can play for hours. I review in the Review Tool usually, just for those who don't me, really. It's a good way for me to organize my thoughts, but it's really only for non poetry; poetry is very off-the-cuff reviewing wise, very much about my emotions so nothing formal is needed. So I will open their story or non fic item, the Review Tool, and often I will double check my words through an online dictionary. I'm almost always right it's interesting to note: I just don't trust my brain I guess to be remembering the word correctly.  When WRITING as opposed to REVIEWING, I also keep this website up when I am writing a poem with a specific syllable presentation: https://www.howmanysyllables.com/syllable_counter/ Do you feel these tools help? Yeah, I'd say my toolkit helps! I think the best reviewers take it seriously. Not to say it can't be fun, but this is someone's work here and it could have deep meaning to them, so I feel I'm gonna give it my best. I make exceptions for friends, when they just need a quick read, when they want to know does this jive with my past work? Or, did this part make sense to you? So, I think my routine helps me to remember to be serious but not too formal, still ME. People don't listen to butlers– they accuse them of murder eh eh. So yes I want to be clear and concise and totally relatable. I'm still working on the concise part   Click Da Pics    |
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