New Mark Singer tale
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Thanks much for the kind words, Ran. Always makes me feel good to know my ramblings are being enjoyed.
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Roberta
I read your new one, "Roberta" as well Mark, and I must say that it was one of the better stories on this site in the past few months. If it were mine, though, I would have broken it apart into a few parts... Quite long... but it "held" my attention (IF you know what I mean)...
I read your new one, "Roberta" as well Mark, and I must say that it was one of the better stories on this site in the past few months. If it were mine, though, I would have broken it apart into a few parts... Quite long... but it "held" my attention (IF you know what I mean)...
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Aaahhh...feedback...
Ah, the smooth massage of feedback... You know, H.S.W., with all the posts I've read on this site from authors asking for, and sometimes begging for, feedback, I'm very surprized that there isn't more feedback shared between us all. I understand that people have constraints of time and energy, but it would still be a good thing.
I'm certainly just as bad as anyone but I think I'll make it a New Year's resolution to start presenting more feedback to whoever.
Needless to say, I appreciate your comments. Both on the story (glad you enjoyed) and on the format. It's little comments like that that will make us all better (and hopefully more popular) writers. I pulled 'Roberta' up on the site and read through it and I have to agree with you that it IS a bit lengthy for a single submission. I have a tendency to continue writing on a story until a seemingly obvious break presents itself, then try to work it into a 'continuation'. Perhaps I should rethink my writing habits. I have four chapters of 'Roberta' 'finished' and a fifth in the hopper and maybe I should go back and re-edit them for easier reading. Hmmmm....
What do you think? And anyone else reading this post....I'd love to hear your opinions on the matter. The more we share about this kind of thing, the better off we'll all be, yes?
Anyhoo... thanks again.
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Ah, the smooth massage of feedback... You know, H.S.W., with all the posts I've read on this site from authors asking for, and sometimes begging for, feedback, I'm very surprized that there isn't more feedback shared between us all. I understand that people have constraints of time and energy, but it would still be a good thing.
I'm certainly just as bad as anyone but I think I'll make it a New Year's resolution to start presenting more feedback to whoever.
Needless to say, I appreciate your comments. Both on the story (glad you enjoyed) and on the format. It's little comments like that that will make us all better (and hopefully more popular) writers. I pulled 'Roberta' up on the site and read through it and I have to agree with you that it IS a bit lengthy for a single submission. I have a tendency to continue writing on a story until a seemingly obvious break presents itself, then try to work it into a 'continuation'. Perhaps I should rethink my writing habits. I have four chapters of 'Roberta' 'finished' and a fifth in the hopper and maybe I should go back and re-edit them for easier reading. Hmmmm....
What do you think? And anyone else reading this post....I'd love to hear your opinions on the matter. The more we share about this kind of thing, the better off we'll all be, yes?
Anyhoo... thanks again.
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Mark as an aspiring writer you are my idol! ;-)
I thought the Roberta story was a bit long as well, three pages is a nice length for me to handle, but an excellent story nontheless!
I thought the Roberta story was a bit long as well, three pages is a nice length for me to handle, but an excellent story nontheless!
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I wouldn't re-edit them Mark... I think you've got something really good rolling with Roberta.. But just keep the length thing in mind for your future stories.
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Re: Aaahhh...feedback...
The first part of Roberta is great.
HSW does have a good point about "smaller" chapters. I think I would have made three chapters out of part one -- The first encounter with her brother, the day at school, and then the second encounter.
I wouldn't go back and resubmit it in parts, though. It's more work than is needed, and would make us wait for part two. <G>
I haven't quite figured out just exactly how many characters, words, lines or paragraphs, the script uses to break up the longer stories -- It's somewhere in the vicinty of 12-14K in text format and breaks at the end of a paragraph. I intend to try and fit each story into no more than two pages in my future submissions.
I did notice a couple of typos and missing words. You might consider one the volunteer editors as a second set of eyes to spot what you're too close to see. You don't need a whole lot of editing, more proofreading than editing. I can't wait for the next "four" parts (whether it's four or split into eight or more.)
Mark Singer said:
The first part of Roberta is great.
HSW does have a good point about "smaller" chapters. I think I would have made three chapters out of part one -- The first encounter with her brother, the day at school, and then the second encounter.
I wouldn't go back and resubmit it in parts, though. It's more work than is needed, and would make us wait for part two. <G>
I haven't quite figured out just exactly how many characters, words, lines or paragraphs, the script uses to break up the longer stories -- It's somewhere in the vicinty of 12-14K in text format and breaks at the end of a paragraph. I intend to try and fit each story into no more than two pages in my future submissions.
I did notice a couple of typos and missing words. You might consider one the volunteer editors as a second set of eyes to spot what you're too close to see. You don't need a whole lot of editing, more proofreading than editing. I can't wait for the next "four" parts (whether it's four or split into eight or more.)
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