Which Writing Group Features Do You Want?
We have compiled our top 10 list of features that we feel will enhance the peer reviews process at Review Fuse. Please take a moment to review this list of features, and let us know which ones you think we should add to Review Fuse first. Vote for your favorite features by leaving comments below, and feel free to suggest additional features in your comments.
- Make the Private Messaging system more accessible
- Provide each reviewer with a list of all the peer reviews he or she has completed.
- Allow members to submit Books, not just First Chapters, for review.
- Allow me to download the reviews I receive to my personal computer.
- Enable me to view multiple reviews simultaneously, so I can see what all of my peers think.
- Allow me to create my own writing group on Review Fuse.
- Private groups would be accessible by invitation only.
- Public writing groups can be joined by anyone.
- Improve the inline commenting (if you vote for this one, please tell us specifically how we should improve it).
- Allow me to submit poetry for peer review.
- Allow authors create their own review frameworks for the stories they submit.
- Allow me to submit my writing exercises so that my peers can help me improve on specific topics.
Thanks you for taking the time to submit your votes.
Jacob
Stumble it!
Tags: Future Features, top 10 list, Writing Group
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 am
I am looking forward most to the writing exercises on specific topics. I do not have that much experience in writing and there are a lot of topics that I need to polish, but it is hard to get enough detail on those topics on a full review.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
I like the idea of submitting writing exercises too. Because I’m not at a point where I’m ready to write a first chapter, but I have exercises I’ve done that I would love getting feedback on.
Two other things sound exciting too. (1) Allowing the download of my reviews. (2) Seeing multiple reviews simultaneously that’s would be a good time saver.
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 am
I believe that the writing exercise is the feature you should ‘put up’ next. Everyone can really benefit from that more than any other feature offered … in my humble opinion of course!
I know that I would love to try my hand at them for sure!
Even though we have been asked to rate the first one we want, I would also like to mention a couple of others that I think should be considered: (1)Allow members to submit Books, not just First Chapters, for review (gets confusing when you get a 3rd chapter and haven’t read the first!)
(2) Provide each reviewer with a list of all the peer reviews he or she has completed
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 am
“Allow me to create my own writing group on Review Fuse.” / ” Improve the inline commenting (if you vote for this one, please tell us specifically how we should improve it).”
I think it would be awesome if I could view all my inline comments from several different reviewers all in one story. It’d probably be color coded so that all the comments from the first reviewer would be one color (say yellow) and all the comments from the second reviewer would be another (perhaps green). If multiple reviewers commented on the same paragraph then the comment boxes would just stack on top of each other under the paragraph.
I also think it would be nice to be able to submit poems and multi-chapter stories.
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:36 am
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October 28th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I am a novel writer. We need to solve the problem of novels. I think private writing group is colossal idea for this. Maybe limit private group to 4 or 5 members so we can submit one chapter at a time and be reviewed by the same group as the story moves along. I think the members of the group need to match up on skill level and committment to thoughtful written critique, not just numerical rating.