I thought this was really helpful, especially the tips in Chapter 1! It's a really nice idea to try and help out other writers on FictionPress. I'd love it if you would R&R my work as you really seem to know your stuff. Thanks :)

Thank you very much for taking the time and effort to help new, inspiring, and perhaps even experienced, writers.
In my opinion, this was not only a "Guide For Fictionpress Reviews," but also a guide for writing in a thoughtful, thorough way. This was very easy to understand, straight to the point, provided both a reader's and writer's point of view, and was overall, a very productive read.
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ahahahah...even though you said all that and throughly explained reviewing, i dont think i am doing it correctly, but i'll try anyway. and it was helpful, and i'll take it to my grave..nah. okay i'm sorry, maybe i will, i'm not sure. it depends when i die, and how old i am and if my memory is still intact or fading, or on whatever else may happen that causes me to forget this guide to reviewing.
But seriously if i had not have read this, then i would have never realised that i had been doing exactly what you weren't meant to do, and exactly what ** people off, and turns them off reading. luckily i'm new to fictionpress, and i can start afresh!! so i'm quite happy. well thats all i wanted to say. that and thank you.
so...thank you.

Thanks so much for the guide! It was super-helpful, and now I have a bunch of ideas on how to improve my story and my writing!

I just wanted to say you've given some great advice! Might I suggest adding a bit about long author's notes within chapters? I know it annoys me when a good story has author's notes at the start of each chapter. At the end, it's better.

But now I feel like I'm rambling. Thanks again for the good advice.

C.H. Morgan

Amazing guide. You addressed a lot of things that I believe needed to be addressed and more.

I find it very interesting . You speaks about accents but sometimes i didn't understand because of the accents (maybe i didn't understand because i am french, but for me ,the accents are not a godd things ).

Umm... how would you describe a fight scene between two brothers?

Well, that was insightful.

Pretty new at FictionPress, but I've got my FanFiction account way back since when... but you could say I'm still new. Aspiring, even.

Great examples. I loved how you elaborated on the 'cabin'. Haha. And the Fallen Angel? I must have been neglecting my Christian Humanism studies because I've never really thought of it that way.

I'll go visit your profile now. See? It works! :)

You would not believe how much this has helped me out. Thank you so much for writing this.

This was very informative, and extremely helpful. Thanks for putting this out there, I'll try to incorporate some of that advice!

Wow, this is some good information. Thanks, I'm really going to take this to use!:)

~Classychik!:D

You don't know how helpful that was! I, myself, am a new writer. And I need all the help I can get. I've been fishing around with it for a few years but only just worked up the courage to throw something out there.
Anyway, I'm not too sure I'm an amazing reviewer but this has helped.
Thanks for this, especially the story section. I am getting the guide to creative writing for sure.
And I liked the reading crap and then reading good stuff thing, it makes a lot of sense actually.

heh, that was really useful and quite awesome ;)

a lot of it was common sense, but then again common sense isn't very common now, is it? tehe.

well since you hold such great advice i shall now run over to ur bio, read it frantically and then proceed to read all of your stories according to how many reviews there are.

on a side note, summaries are what draw me in. an added bonus is the amount of reviews the story is showing me- if 5 chapters by an author generates 3 reviews, its not worth reading. if it gets 30 or more, that's my style;)

i live for myrika and lovelyhead- who of course, still hasn't updated this time last yr (i'm still waiting!)

anyway, 5 star advice, couldn't have written it better. killer examples used too. i hate when descriptions are overdone. but then i hate when people say 'she went into the woods. she saw a cottage. she went into the cottage.' or something like that. my kinda style would be..

'Crunch.'
"Who-who's there?" she asked tentatively. She glanced around quickly. Nothing answered her call except the faint rustle of the wind. Shivering, she spotted a battered old cottage across the hill.
'Maybe I can seek shelter there..' she thought.

m, but that's my style. not really a fan of descriptions, but thats just me. simplicity at its best.

thanks so much for the rad advice, i'm sure it's helped a lot of rookies out there!

-j.c-chic

so this is really helpful:)
thanks for this