Compared to the Review Competition this certainly has a bigger prize pool, aha. Trophies are serious business! Still, reading is hard.
Procrastinating writing by reading, and procrastinating reading by writing, might be a good approach to take by those in the contest.
I think if I manage two featured reviews I might have a shot at first, second, or third (but happy to be proven wrong, aha).
Alright I guess I'll do my part for the community.
Here to cash in for my second throphy
Here to stop Darius from getting his second throphy
I hope Petros will kill you
...in a coin-toss murder story?
I will do ten thorough reviews; don't think that anyone else will do this much.
This aged like milk
The mods are godlike and omniscient. They know.
I agree with ya there, DB.
Reviews are your duty as a citizen of CYStia. You should be lucky the powers at be reward anything for something such a reviewing stories on a story driven community.
The man speaks wisdom. Hear, hear!
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Miss Mizal, you terrify me..... 0_0
...And I mean that in the most respectful way possible...
Count me in for this one! Always happy to sign on for more reading.
I might as well do something with my summer outside of working. I'll give it a go.
Sign me up as well.
I will try this "reading" thing.
Oh that's right... You can't 'read' :P
I guess since I've already been making comments in here I will sign up too. Just don't expect me to get much reading done because every second of free time will be poured into the Crisis Contest and the remaining Thunderdome duels. :,)
Okie! I will try and remember that!
(Or I'll have a post count on my profile)
Well maybe this will be incentive to finish reviewing every story below a 4, though I'll be taking breaks and reviewing better stories to preserve sanity and avoid burnout.
Count me in.
I'm in!
Also I just had a comment featured today after this contest started. Does that count as one?
If not, being featured for the first time is still an accomplishment.
Congrats!!! :D
Congratulations!
I'm in.
Sounds like a great challenge, I'm in. Guess there's no better way to start than to post a (hopefully) soon-to-be-featured review of The Reign of Terror.
That's true. Any healthy writing site should have more consistent readers as opposed to writers. I think it would be cool if you got given more points for a featured comment, although I'm obviously not educated on how the point system works. I feel like you can't get too many readers or too many people reviewing, but I feel like you can have the opposite lol.
I'll add that the featured comment itself is worth two points, so that's 16 points in a day for a single review. If you keep it up for a week, assuming no one else competes, that's 112 points.
Yay!
I steel ken reed storees
I've mostly been busy with preparing for the next academic year, so it might be a couple of weeks before I can return to reviewing regularly. Maybe I'll try to write reviews on my phone when traveling. Either way, if anyone wants to snatch the first-place spot (though really I prefer you don't), now would be a good time.
Don't mind me snatching it up because I finally have some free time now >:)
I knew you would respond, haha. But don't you have classes starting soon? I have a friend in the Netherlands and she says her new term begins in a week.
I'll take it as a compliment that my writing level is on par with someone older than me.
Technically I only have till the end of the week till things get busy again, but I'm mostly already done with the preparations.
I admire the competition here. Reminds me that I need to review some more stories as well. Want to give a decent showing before all of this is over, despite my own busy schedule.
Update: I don't recommend writing a review on your phone in a speeding car, especially if you have car sickness.
Anyway, it'll be at least 5 days before I can type up reviews on my laptop. I just hope I won't return to see Darius with 50 featured reviews.
Mystic is built different when it comes to reviews. She can smash out 2 well thought out reviews at least on the same day, even on lengthy stories. With me, i read the story (slowly, mind you) and then i probably spend about an hour just trying to gather my scattered and disjointed thoughts and feelings on the story, and then take another 40 minutes typing it out in a manner which is actually readable lol
I dont know how some of them do it, but ill give it my best shot : )
That wasn't me, but a member called MinnieKing. Just checked and saw that they once had 23 featured comments in a day, making all the other achievements on the Avon thread irrelevant lol.
23 featured comments in a day and 0 points lol
I noticed my order status has changed from 'warden' to 'warden of avon'. Does the status change occur once you reach a certain amount of commendations or?
My method is similar to Darius' and Will's where I take notes as I read each storygame. I found that to save time, I could just write the review while I read, however I leave the parts about the overall theme, character arcs and plotline for when I finish the storygame. Sometimes I still write disorganized draft notes when feeling tired and organize them later.
Honestly, after reviewing so many storygames, I notice some of them have similar elements where they succeed or fail. At one point, I copy pasted the same paragraph on formatting dialogue for three different reviews but I changed the examples to be specific to each (because it felt too much like cheating otherwise).
Shhh don't tell them.
