http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ Web Fiction Guide Forums » Tag: feedback - Recent Posts en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:08:22 +0000 http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/a-definition-of-success#post-7380 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:27:34 +0000 MadHacktress 7380@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Wynterlex demonstrates an important consideration for defining success: motivation.</p> <p>Those who write for a living, I suppose, would define their success by whether or not they're able to live off writing. Those who write for passion would measure success based on the fulfillment received by the creative process. Etc, etc, etc for the various motivating factors for those who write.</p> <p>My point, as with your point, is that it's up to the individual to set their own benchmark for success.</p> <p>I think a big problem is that people conflate the notion of a "successful writer" with that of a "professional writer". </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/a-definition-of-success#post-7378 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:52:48 +0000 Wynterlex 7378@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I agree great post - How many artists who's paintings are priceless now nearly never made a cent while they were painting? I can name five right now - And yet they kept painting. I think it's the same with writing.</p> <p>I write because I can't not write. I'm an okay writer but I doubt I'll ever be a great one, I'm able to promote myself but I'll never have enough confidence or showmanship to really push myself out there. And that's sort of alright. I have a job and in all honesety if I had to sit on my butt all day writing to make a living I'd go crazy (I need to move which is why I have an on-the-go job)</p> <p>I've been writing for a pretty long time and got into the fanfiction circle for a pretty long time - I had readers tell me that I made them cry, made them laugh, made their day better, helped with various emotional problems. Now I'm writing my own original fiction and if I can make people happy or touch someone with what I write then I feel successful.</p> <p>If I was an actress I'd be into community theatre, if I was a musician I'd busk, but I'm a writer and here I am :D </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/a-definition-of-success#post-7374 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:28:13 +0000 Kess 7374@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Love the post! I've been giving this subject a lot of thought lately, and will probably babble on my blog once those thoughts have achieved a coherent state (and I have time to sit down and write it). I'll definitely be bookmarking your post as a reference. Thanks! :) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/a-definition-of-success#post-7368 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:28:06 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 7368@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Since this has come up a few times in the past few weeks, I thought I'd offer a link to my post about definitions of success:</p> <p><a href="http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/989051.html" rel="nofollow">http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/989051.html</a></p> <p>If you are too busy to read the whole thing, the takeaway is probably the last line: Because if you have ever made a single thing that touched another person, you too, have succeeded. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/desparate-for-feedback-from-this-enlightened-community#post-7355 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:09:07 +0000 SamNye 7355@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>ha ha ha I understand. I guess I mistook what you meant at first as meaning the story. I am proud to announce that I successfully HTML coded a table of contents page, with links to all current chapters (and even though my first attempt had dead links basically leading to nowhere, after about half an hour they now have all been verified as linking to their assigned chapters.) Thank you for pointing out how hard it is to find the chapters. I think the table of contents page will help readers a lot. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/desparate-for-feedback-from-this-enlightened-community#post-7354 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:54:00 +0000 Gavin Williams 7354@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Sam -- that town is scary -- even when the writing improves (which I'm sure it will) it will still be a place I wouldn't want to visit -- in the best way possible. Because it's horror. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/desparate-for-feedback-from-this-enlightened-community#post-7353 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:18:18 +0000 SamNye 7353@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Also, I understand the problem about the many unreviewed stories. I am currently working on reading some as well, in the hopes of helping those authors who have waited for two years for a review. This site is fantastic, and I'd like to help in as many ways as I can. Tons of thanks to Chris Poirier for being such a consistent editor/reviewer. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/desparate-for-feedback-from-this-enlightened-community#post-7352 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:16:24 +0000 SamNye 7352@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Thank you for the honest review, Gavin. I should make it more clear somewhere that the first four chapters of this story were written when I was approximately the age of the character, and smoking more pot than even Jerry Carson. I should have waited until after the re-write phase to post online, perhaps, but once I found the manuscript in this last year, I was excited to have it back in my grasp and eager to get people to read it without having to print them a copy. At that time, I had a tendency, as you said in your review, to "see things clearly in (my) mind, but wanting to jump to the good parts." I definitely appreciate the feedback, and in the rewrite I will for sure try to "show" a bit more instead of just "telling." I have noticed this lack of visuals when I put the story on my ebook reader and began reviewing it myself (I am now twenty three, so its been over eight years since I first hand-wrote the first few chapters in a buzzed rush.) Anyways, thank you for the honesty and clear reasoning for your low rating of my novel.<br /> As to the chapters... in the blog section, at the very top, every single available chapter is listed at the right hand side of the screen. However, when you scroll down with the story, it stays at the top instead of tracking along, and this is something I don't have the HTML know how to fix. But all the chapters are listed there, with a link to each one. But perhaps they just aren't obvious enough. A table of contents tab would help, and i will see if I can make it happen. Unfortunately I made the mistake of using a blog section to list the chapters, so I don't know if I can redirect to them from another page, but I will certainly try, as I want to fix anything I can to make this site more enjoyable to come to and read.<br /> Everything you've said is much appreciated, I have taken it all into serious consideration, and all I can say is I hope one day you perhaps read further than chapter two or three. Those are the areas (when I was reading it seven years after writing it originally) that became a slow drog. I hope I can regain the discipline to hold onto my ability to write strong prose, and hopefully that small town you don't want to visit will eventually be a little more tolerable.<br /> Thanks again. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/desparate-for-feedback-from-this-enlightened-community#post-7351 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:22:33 +0000 Gavin Williams 7351@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Well, I don't know if it's "jumping the gun" to be desperate for feedback when all of us want feedback -- but just to let you know there are over 200 stories that no one but Chris has looked at, and some of them date as far back as 2009. The community is trying to keep up -- but speaking up in the forums is a pretty good way to get noticed.</p> <p>One thing that struck me when I took a glance at your site this morning is that there's no table of contents link -- the "Small Town Ravaging" tab takes you to the most recently posted chapter, and then you have to scan down along the right column to find a chapter list to get to the beginning. A direct link to the start is always a good idea, as is a table of contents page. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/desparate-for-feedback-from-this-enlightened-community#post-7344 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:36:49 +0000 SamNye 7344@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I am a little concerned that Chris is the only person who has reviewed my online novel, Small Town Ravaging (www.smalltownravaging.weebly.com). I am just wondering, if anyone has been there and been turned off by something in particular that kept you from coming back, could you please let me know? I am having trouble securing feedback, and so I have almost no sense of whether or not my story is just rubbish, or if there is something about the setup of my site that sends people away. (One thing I know for sure is that the chapters are long, as I wrote them long before deciding to make my story available online, thus they tend to run a little too long for just casual weekly reading.)<br /> Just a polite enquiry. If I am jumping the gun after only a month, feel free to tell me that as well :)<br /> Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read/reply to this post. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-awakenings-awakeningsembklitzkecom#post-7104 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:40:51 +0000 Erin Klitzke 7104@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I've been listed on Web Fiction Guide for a few months, but I still haven't gotten any reviews (looks like I went up in a batch of works that for some reason didn't get any, which is okay).</p> <p>I apologize, because I'm eight and a half chapters in now, so it's starting to be a monster work. Folks have given me blurb feedback, but I still haven't gotten any actual reviews. One or two would definitely be appreciated!</p> <p>Thanks in advance, guys, both for any potential reviews in the future, but also for all the advice I've gotten from the community since I went live back in April. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-grigors-amazing-adventure-part-zero#post-6997 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:33:57 +0000 Alexander.Hollins 6997@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>for the style that would work for you, i suggest looking up and reading Bill: The intergalactic hero. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-grigors-amazing-adventure-part-zero#post-6996 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:33:17 +0000 Alexander.Hollins 6996@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I like the site design, although if the books completed, i would reverse the order so that chapter one is first, rather than the last chapter. </p> <p>As for the book... enh. Its very stilted, very tell not show. There's manly, and theres macho anti-intellectual. The writing style just doesn't flow, doesn't do it for me. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-grigors-amazing-adventure-part-zero#post-6981 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:20:20 +0000 GrigorsAdventure 6981@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>totally forgot to add the url. It's here: <a href="http://grigorsadventure.tumblr.com/archive" rel="nofollow">http://grigorsadventure.tumblr.com/archive</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-grigors-amazing-adventure-part-zero#post-6980 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:19:47 +0000 GrigorsAdventure 6980@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hey, </p> <p>I wrote this novel to be compeletely over the top in manliness and completely outrageous to boot. So I was wondering if people could tell me what they think of it? Does anyone want to see the actual story emerge or is that a lost cause? should I try to tighten up the writing style to make it more focused, or does it being a bit crazy work?</p> <p>Thanks loads guys </p>