Very well said. I am not a writer (haven't quite gotton up the nerve yet) but I always try to review all the stories I read. If for no other reason than that the writer had the guts to go through with posting it. I also believe that reviewing is not about raking someone over the coals even if their story sucks. I believe most writers are looking for suggestions on how to make their stories better and more appealing to the reader. No one is saying you have to lie and say you like everything you read but you don't have to be an ass about it either. To be quite honest, that type of review says more about the reviewer than it ever could about the writer and believe me it ain't anything good !




Quote Originally Posted by fantazmaster
Well at least you got reviews on your stories Omega.I am not complaining as my 1st story"Karmal's Saga" has had close to 9500 readers according to the counter as of this writing
and certainly that has well exceeded my expectations.My dilemma is the lack of reviews or votes,of which there have been none as of this writing.

There again I have received several e-mails from a half dozen readers who have asked me to continue this story.with several providing some excellent ideas for the next chapters.Thankfully,I have not been dressed down publicly or privately by any English majors or teachers out there on either side of the Atlantic regarding split infinitives.sentence fragments or the precise placement of commas,semi-colons and the like in this story.I realize I do not have a journalistic or editorial background and I am afraid if MS Word doesn't catch these fine points,then so be it as my time to write is often limited and quite simply I cannot be spending hours poring over various writer's grammar and style books.My philosophy here is to capture the creative thoughts in writing as they occur and try to convey these in a descriptive manner which causes the reader to perhaps use their imagination
to envision the action and characters within the story.In so doing if I miss a comma or take a liberty with sentence structure,then so what?The reader ,unless he or she is highly critical in their perusal will hopefully not be distracted from the flow of events in the story.