I've recommended your Star Wars fiction to two of my live journal friends. I assure you I didn't do this because I'm on your flist, but because I enjoyed them so much and wanted to spread my enjoyment. :-)
About reviewing stories in general: I've noticed that I usually review stories I enjoy. In this case, I also find it easier to specify what I like and what I don't like and give balanced feedback.
Occasionally, I stumble over stories that are so horrible bad that I don't see any point in leaving feedback. If an author obviously doesn't care about characterization, grammar or spelling - e.g. I'm traumatized by all the versions I read for "Anakin" or "Hermione", "anikan" or "hermoine" come to mind - then I don't care about leaving feedback. All I could write is: "Yu suX!!!11!"
The third category of stories for me is stories where you can see the author worked hard and does have talent, but some things could be improved. That's an occasion where I try to leave detailed feedback so it's actually helpful.
Oh, and then there are authors who have already received 200 comments or more for their stories - even though they only posted 12 hours ago. :-) If I can't add something new, I very often won't leave feedback for these stories. Perhaps that's wrong, but I don't have an endless amount of time and rather save my feedback time for authors who are less well known.
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Date: 2005-08-24 04:17 pm (UTC)About reviewing stories in general:
I've noticed that I usually review stories I enjoy. In this case, I also find it easier to specify what I like and what I don't like and give balanced feedback.
Occasionally, I stumble over stories that are so horrible bad that I don't see any point in leaving feedback. If an author obviously doesn't care about characterization, grammar or spelling - e.g. I'm traumatized by all the versions I read for "Anakin" or "Hermione", "anikan" or "hermoine" come to mind - then I don't care about leaving feedback. All I could write is: "Yu suX!!!11!"
The third category of stories for me is stories where you can see the author worked hard and does have talent, but some things could be improved. That's an occasion where I try to leave detailed feedback so it's actually helpful.
Oh, and then there are authors who have already received 200 comments or more for their stories - even though they only posted 12 hours ago. :-) If I can't add something new, I very often won't leave feedback for these stories. Perhaps that's wrong, but I don't have an endless amount of time and rather save my feedback time for authors who are less well known.