http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ Web Fiction Guide Forums » Tag: reviews - Recent Posts en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:22:22 +0000 http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/fascinating-reviews-for-rosary/page/2#post-7418 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:59:16 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 7418@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>So, Jinx, the story's 3/4s of the way through... you think I'm living up to my beginning? :) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7235 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:52:59 +0000 Alexander.Hollins 7235@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Same, i've been itching to read some new things, I'll take a look through and read some. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7233 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:28:57 +0000 cassandrastryffe 7233@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hmmm. Gonna have to set aside some time for reading this week I guess! I used to try to write one review a month...sometimes more. Lately though I've gotten side tracked. </p> <p>And thanks Chris! Just noticed a few minutes ago that my story was added! I appreciated it! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7224 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:25:48 +0000 Fiona Gregory 7224@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Awesome job with the reviews, everyone! I'm so impressed. </p> <p>Among the mediocre and abandoned stuff, some real gems are coming to light. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7223 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:15:10 +0000 ubersoft 7223@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Bragging rights! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7222 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:12:38 +0000 Gavin Williams 7222@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Is there a prize beyond the satisfaction of contributing to the community? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7221 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:55:31 +0000 ubersoft 7221@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Waiting for wine to compile is proving to be an excellent time to read and review webfiction. If I have to do this too many more times I just might catch up to Gavin.</p> <p>Not that it's a competition.</p> <p>... </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7213 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:50:56 +0000 Chris George 7213@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>There being no definitive end, or the story just being abandoned is a risk in any form of serial fiction, including traditionally published novels, films, TV series, video games; anything really. Despite this i still find serially told stories the kind that engage me most and it's the reason I wanted to write an ongoing series in that timeframe. I don't have an endpoint in sight at the moment and I don't know 100% that I'll reach one, but - as a writer - it's the journey that matters and I hope, for some readers at least, they'll respect that and enjoy what there is as it's there. I hope I can keep on at it and that one day I reach a satisfying conclusion, but I don't see Shadow as a novel-in-progress so much as I see it as an ongoing series, like a TV show, which may one day come to an end.</p> <p>When it comes to reviewing, or comitting myself to reading a serial, I take it as I find it. If one day it just stops coming, then I'll be sad, but it's a risk of the medium and I wouldn't miss out on serial stories for the world. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7211 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:46:42 +0000 ubersoft 7211@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I confess I'm pretty stoked I actually finished it. But mostly I was just being a smartass. :D </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7210 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:05:08 +0000 Erin Klitzke 7210@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>You're just crazy excited about that, aren't you ubersoft?</p> <p>When I first joined here, I went on a reviewing <em>binge</em>. Then, unfortunately, I got busy doing other things (writing being chief among them, since I'm prepping some science fiction work for e-publication sometime this fall). It's nice to get back to reading, though. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7209 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:20:46 +0000 ubersoft 7209@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Anyone looking for something to review that is guaranteed to finish can take comfort in the knowledge that the last chapter of <em>Pay Me, Bug!</em> goes up October 19. ;-) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7207 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:04:39 +0000 Chris Poirier 7207@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>For my own part, I won't be posting something again that isn't at least mostly finished when I start. I do take my readers' time seriously, and am not happy I couldn't finish WR. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7205 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:39:54 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 7205@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>There are a lot of web comics that aren't really serial in nature. Penny Arcade doesn't tell a broad story that seems to be heading toward an end, for instance. Those are the only type I read, when I read web comics at all. And even so, web fiction is a much bigger emotional investment for me than web comics.</p> <p>I'm not alone in this--I've had people tell me they avoid reading web fiction unless the author has a track record of finishing projects. (Web fiction writers, be aware! Readers do notice!)</p> <p>So, yes, it's a risk. But my entertainment time is limited, and I don't want to invest time in something that gets discarded.</p> <p>I suppose I could find some of the serials that are already finished, though. :) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge/page/2#post-7203 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:39:37 +0000 ubersoft 7203@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Well I suppose that's always a risk. But really, it is for comics, too, or any other kind of art. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-challenge#post-7202 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:22:35 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 7202@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I admit I lost heart for reviewing when three of the webfiction projects I was reading (and enjoying) stopped being updated--two just seemed to vanish for no reason, and the third, the author lost interest and went to work on something else. :P </p>