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felioness	This site... Posted 2 Years Ago Every time I log on to this site I am struck with the feeling of how I imagine entering a brand new morgue must feel like....stark, sterile white and empty...with a tad of creepiness attached to it. This site needs REVITALIZATION!!!
hwappy cheezit	Re: This site... Posted 2 Years Ago You may think so, but I, for one, like WC just the way it is. Despite its crashes, I love it. The way you would a relative who fails a considerable amount. It's part of me, and I shall take it the way it is with any faults that remain within its details.<3
vqfarrold	Re: This site... Posted 2 Years Ago Originally posted by felioness Every time I log on to this site I am struck with the feeling of how I imagine entering a brand new morgue must feel like....stark, sterile white and empty...with a tad of creepiness attached to it. This site needs REVITALIZATION!!! Any suggestions? Are you referring to the colour scheme (it is rather ghostly-grey, but I think the story layout and font it uses is elegant) or the level of user activity with regard to commentary and reviews? Are there any other similar sites from which ideas could be borrowed? I have been looking for a site where (1) one can post one's writing (2) one can review/comment and be reviewed/commented on (3) one can find writing of reasonable quality. For erotic writing, Literotica is not bad in all three departments. For non-erotic writing I have checked out writing dot com, booksie dot com, and this site. I think this one just shades the other two, but it is very difficult to find good writing on any of these three sites. However that is to be expected if there is no process for screening out 'bad quality' writing. And given that judging the 'quality' of writing is so subjective, would one want there to be?
Weaver	Re: This site... Posted 2 Years Ago Originally posted by vqfarrold Originally posted by felioness Every time I log on to this site I am struck with the feeling of how I imagine entering a brand new morgue must feel like....stark, sterile white and empty...with a tad of creepiness attached to it. This site needs REVITALIZATION!!! Any suggestions? Are you referring to the colour scheme (it is rather ghostly-grey, but I think the story layout and font it uses is elegant) or the level of user activity with regard to commentary and reviews? Are there any other similar sites from which ideas could be borrowed? I have been looking for a site where (1) one can post one's writing (2) one can review/comment and be reviewed/commented on (3) one can find writing of reasonable quality. For erotic writing, Literotica is not bad in all three departments. For non-erotic writing I have checked out writing dot com, booksie dot com, and this site. I think this one just shades the other two, but it is very difficult to find good writing on any of these three sites. However that is to be expected if there is no process for screening out 'bad quality' writing. And given that judging the 'quality' of writing is so subjective, would one want there to be? A process for screening out bad writing? No, nor should there be. A process for screening out bad reviewing? Yes - and it is possible (ask anyone who used to be on Urbis), but it would require the site owner and other people to be actively involved, and that's never going to happen. (Everyone does know that Charlie Konsor abandoned WritersCafe, don't they?)
koopa	Re: This site... Posted 1 Year Ago It's a good site, but if you don't write poetry and are not female, it's pretty hard to get any feedback on work(what it feels to me, no matter how many you reviews you make. Yeah it crashes but bugs are bugs. Nice site though.
SoulCrusader (Yas)	Re: This site... Posted 1 Year Ago Originally posted by koopa It's a good site, but if you don't write poetry and are not female, it's pretty hard to get any feedback on work(what it feels to me, no matter how many you reviews you make. Yeah it crashes but bugs are bugs. Nice site though. lol
Weaver	Re: This site... Posted 1 Year Ago Originally posted by koopa It's a good site, but if you don't write poetry and are not female, it's pretty hard to get any feedback on work(what it feels to me, no matter how many you reviews you make. Yeah it crashes but bugs are bugs. Nice site though. The ones who really don't get enough reviews are the novelists. Most reviewers are too lazy to read anything longer than 1500 words, and if your 3500-word chapter is just one of a couple dozen such chapters in a novel... Poets, of course, get the most reviews. That's because faking a review for a poem is easy. You don't even have to read the thing, just post a "review" that says "Beautiful. You are so creative. 100/100." My advice is, if you're a prose writer, is to join a few groups that focus on fiction, befriend other people who write the kind of stuff you do, and get reviews from them. You'll get more helpful reviews that way anyway.
SoulCrusader (Yas)	Re: This site... Posted 1 Year Ago I would be intersted to know th statistics coz i think this site has like 75% female users, as a female friend told me girls are better at wrting down emotions etc, so it makes sense. For novelists I would suggest getting a lot of people to review from chapter 1 so that it is easier to go on the writing journey with the writer as the novel is written.
Day's-eye	Re: This site... Posted 1 Year Ago Originally posted by SoulCrusader(Yas) I would be intersted to know th statistics coz i think this site has like 75% female users, as a female friend told me girls are better at wrting down emotions etc, so it makes sense. For novelists I would suggest getting a lot of people to review from chapter 1 so that it is easier to go on the writing journey with the writer as the novel is written. You can't make an absolute statement like that about people. Some women are good at writing about emotions, but some aren't. The same goes for men. Gender doesn't have anything to do with whether or not a person can write well! A lot of people do review the first chapter of a novel, but then they never review any more of it.
SoulCrusader (Yas)	Re: This site... Posted 1 Year Ago Originally posted by Day's-eye Originally posted by SoulCrusader(Yas) I would be intersted to know th statistics coz i think this site has like 75% female users, as a female friend told me girls are better at wrting down emotions etc, so it makes sense. For novelists I would suggest getting a lot of people to review from chapter 1 so that it is easier to go on the writing journey with the writer as the novel is written. You can't make an absolute statement like that about people. Some women are good at writing about emotions, but some aren't. The same goes for men. Gender doesn't have anything to do with whether or not a person can write well! A lot of people do review the first chapter of a novel, but then they never review any more of it. Well, If I start something then I finish it so I will complete the full novel. And yeah, I wasn't making a PC point it was just something my friends said. Seems to ring true as well, as I remember even at school just how many girls used to keep diaries, writing their thoughts downetc. While my mates and I couldn't used to keep 'em like hidden. But talent wise you are right gender doesn't matter.