I'm about to put together a blog posting on peer reviews, and I'd be interested before I do so in what other writers think about their peers reviewing their work on the various on-line sites. I have in the past written favourably about this practice but I feel there are downsides too, which I want to explore in my blog. Any thoughts, negative or positive or both, about peer reviews would be most welcome.
What's your take on peer reviews?
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You have a great idea. Ideally peer reviews can be a positive exchange, where each writer may recieve some helpful tips and insights into fully developing their writing to its fullest potential.
Hope you are able to advance your research further, especially upon how best to achieve honest and constructive feedback more so than too sugar-coated or too discouraging. Good luck!
Hope you are able to advance your research further, especially upon how best to achieve honest and constructive feedback more so than too sugar-coated or too discouraging. Good luck!
Blog posting now ready
I have now completed my blog posting Can a writer trust peer reviews? and would welcome a visit from forum members.
Writer in the North
I have now completed my blog posting Can a writer trust peer reviews? and would welcome a visit from forum members.
Writer in the North
Some good may come of it.
I discovered today that my excerpt from Mr Stephenson's Regret has entered the Top Ten chart at YouWrite. com. No, I didn't buy the votes FIFA- style or ask my friends to review. The only thing I know about the reviewers is that they must have exceptionally good taste.
Seriously, the top charted excerpts gain an agent assessment, so that will be worthwile, I believe.
Writer in the North
I discovered today that my excerpt from Mr Stephenson's Regret has entered the Top Ten chart at YouWrite. com. No, I didn't buy the votes FIFA- style or ask my friends to review. The only thing I know about the reviewers is that they must have exceptionally good taste.
Seriously, the top charted excerpts gain an agent assessment, so that will be worthwile, I believe.
Writer in the North
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