Comments on: Which Writing Group Features Do You Want?

By: sksmith

sksmith — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:23:34 +0000

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.

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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:36:39 +0000

[...] have read your suggestions from your emails and your comments to our blog post and have decided to allow the creation of personal writing groups. We are quite excited about [...]

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:37:09 +0000

“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.

By: Sasha

Sasha — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:33:17 +0000

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

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:42:18 +0000

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.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:00:07 +0000

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.