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Let's talk about reviews.

Reviews. Yep. We're going to talk about reviews today.
(puts arm around readers to prevent them from escaping)

I'll start out by admitting that I've been really bad about r and r'ing in the past several months. A lot has been going on... I've in the middle of writing my memoir... I've been working with legislators in my state to pass Right to Try laws... the family business is incredibly busy... blah blah blah, sound of the smallest violin in the world...

But I realized that if I'm going to continue to be committed to this site, this fandom, and this genre of writing, then I NEED TO GET BACK TO READING AND REVIEWING. Sorry about the capslock. But I do need to, and I am, and I have a major backlog that I WILL get to.

So here's the deal... if I can r and r, then so can you. Yes, you can. Authors tell me again and again lately that they look at the numbers under their fics and see several zillion readers...and very few reviews. SOMEONE is reading and not reviewing here.

So here's my challenge: review.

Your review may look like this.
"That's the most amazing portrayal of a Draco/Ginny/giant squid triangle I've ever seen! A full page of incredibly detailed reasons why!"

Or it may look like this:
"That was good."

The first one is obviously more popular with authors than the second one. But both of them show that you care. And that's important. Leave good reviews. Leave critical reviews. Leave reviews torn from the depths of your souls. Leave reviews that you typed in between looking at new cat videos on cuteoverload.com. Leave happy reviews; leave sad reviews; leave joyous reviews; leave depressing reviews. LEAVE A REVIEW. And I will too. :)

Posted by Anise on Sep 30, 2015 07:07 pm (12 Comments)
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What I find helpful when I'm reviewing is to point out any particular sentences/pieces of dialogue that I really liked. I'll copy and past the line into my review and say something like: "This is totally something Draco would say" or "This line cracked me up!" or "Oh my goodness this is so sad" or "This sentence is so beautiful. I wish I could write like this."

Often, starting out a review this way leads to a lot of rambling on my part, but I think my point is made. ;) Sometimes reviewing is overwhelming because you think you won't have anything to add that the author hasn't heard before (which is okay! Multiple people commenting on the same thing is a helpful sign for writers!). So it might be easier if you just pick one specific thing to comment on. It's an easy way to figure out what to say in a review when you can't think of anything else!

idreamofdraco @ Sep 30, 2015 07:59 pm


So true! And I LOVE your reviews especially... I think you're consistently one of the absolute best reviewers out there now. (hands over a Reviewer Crown. Personally, I like the tanzanite ones. :) I know I'm behind on your fics, and I WILL CATCH UP.

Anise @ Sep 30, 2015 09:29 pm


I mean, I have no problem tooting my own horn and saying I write great reviews. ;) My problem is that I hardly ever READ anymore. D: But when I do read, you best believe I'm going to leave a comment!

idreamofdraco @ Sep 30, 2015 10:15 pm


I like to review! I like to gush over the thing I liked about the story or chapter. Very much as idreamofdraco said, dialogue, a scene, anything, and just go from there.

Nutmeg44 @ Oct 02, 2015 09:55 pm


YAY for readers who like to review! :) I'm kind of like of idod, I think... I just haven't been reading much this year. My other writing is so, so different, and I think that's a big part of it. (For instance... I read at a writers' night tonight in PDX from an article I'm working on, and the title is "Stem Cell Clinics: Fakes, Frauds, or Real Hope?" Kind of different from D/G...) But there is just no way around the fact that I've drawn so much strength from this fandom and this genre; I really NEED it for my other writing. So I will read through the list of missed fanfics! And review for each and every one. :)

Anise @ Oct 02, 2015 09:59 pm


...I worry about reviewing every chapter I read because Im running out of original content to put in reviews.

SniperTeamTango @ Oct 05, 2015 05:06 pm


@STT: That's why I like the method I mentioned above. You only have to pick one sentence out of the whole chapter to comment on, and then it's already personalized for that specific chapter. But even if you don't do that, an "I enjoyed this chapter. I can't wait for the next!" kind of review is simple. It may not be original, but it certainly lets an author know that someone is reading and liking the story. I think that's really the point Anise was trying to make. It doesn't matter how short or how long the review is. Just letting the author know that their work is appreciated is a nice gesture. Especially in the Draco/Ginny fandom (but really the Harry Potter fandom as a whole), where less people are writing and less people are reading and less people are reviewing.

idreamofdraco @ Oct 11, 2015 09:22 pm


I generally speaking only read completed fics, but I do my best to review at the end, if not for every chapter.

ginnywitch @ Oct 14, 2015 05:58 pm


This ended up being a great conversations about reviewing as a whole. :) Thanks to everyone for participating!

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