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Drama: September 04, 2024 Issue [#12727]




 This week: Dealing With Fellow Creatives
  Edited by: Lilli 🧿 ☕ Author IconMail Icon
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Table of Contents

1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter

“We will fail when we fail to try.”
~ Rosa Parks

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
~ Booker T. Washington

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts."
~ Winston Churchill

“Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.”
~ Chris Burkmenn


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Letter from the editor

This may not be a popular topic around here, but it is important.

REVIEWING

Wait...don’t run off too quickly. Hear me out, please.


We are here at Writing.com because we love to read and write. While there are some accomplished creatives among us, many are hobby writers. We are a diverse community and our level of writing is just one way we are different. This is important to remember when we sit down to review one another. Particularly when reviewing new members of the site.

Here are a couple of unsolicited suggestions I can offer:

1. If you cannot think of a single nice this to say about an item you’ve just read, then don’t review it. Easy-peasy! No harm will be done.

2. Try to keep your reviews well-rounded. What I mean by this is to tell the author things you liked about their item before going into everything that’s wrong with it. And when you do tell them what’s wrong, offer suggestions on ways to improve.

3. Ask yourself, “Am I writing the type of reviews that I’d like to receive myself?”

4. Have you heard of ‘the sandwich method’? It means beginning and ending the review on a positive note. It’s not that difficult, really.

5. Remember, the type of reviews you give says more about you than what you are reviewing.

6. Just to be clear, I am not suggesting that the reviews we give should be all fluff and artificial praise. I only suggest we give balanced reviews to our fellow creatives.



Editor's Picks

For further reading on the topic of reviewing, please enjoy these:

"Guidelines To Great Reviewing" Open in new Window. by The StoryMistress Author Icon

"Reviewing Wisdom 1, 2, 3 GO!"  Open in new Window. by April Sunday Author Icon

"What Do You Mean?"  Open in new Window. by Vivian Author Icon

"On Reviewing Etiquette"  Open in new Window. by Valori76 Author Icon

"My Thoughts On Reviewing"  Open in new Window. by Tiggy Author Icon

"The Benefits of Reviewing"  Open in new Window. by Florence C. Author Icon

"On Giving Reviews"  Open in new Window. by Roseille ♥ Author Icon



 
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