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Reviewing Newsletters Archive

by vivacious

Rated: E · Book · Writing · #1276841

All issues of the Reviewing Newsletter

Reviewing Newsletter Archive.

Archives of the Reviewing Newsletter which I hope all members will continue to find useful.

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4 Most Recent Blog Comments:

VictoriaMcCullough

Mar 8, 2013 at 5:50pm
In response to "Reviewing Contest Entries - by Dark Lady"

I reread some of the Newletters in the Archives.I had a contest one year that was called "Lazy, Hazy Days Of Summer". I like what you said here,Dark Lady

. Winner in giving us how to review. Unique. Original. Thorough. Thanks. I'm glad I'm a part of this.

Christina~Thanks StoryMaster

Feb 10, 2011 at 9:13am
In response to "Reviewing Poetry - by Kate"

Thank you for your lovely newsletter. It helped me in compiling my class on poetry reviewing here on WDC. I have a question. I am unable to find meaning and examples of emphatic emphasis and lingual legerdemain anywhere. Can you help me with the same?

April Sunday

Nov 25, 2009 at 8:02am
In response to "Mental Preparation Prior to Reviewing - by Arwee"

TEFF= April Sunday
For Issue # 43 // Reposted @

In chronological order: Without using c&p and typing in the following quotes spots ...

CHRONO ORDER

AT: "getting back ..." try return or returned

"get so wrapped up ..." stressing out can now be inserted
as it hooks as what (of the 5 Ws)
may now open a hook paragraph, dear rev nl poster.
With your other opinion reading overall here in this title --- Me: inclusive of admission: moods affect tone (and shouldn't) online revver to writer. Thus, SEE YOUR ADVICE of taking a deep breath, reading the entire story through, not placing accidental (uncontolable?) swings to disrespectfully forgetting somehow that you are talking to a "real person" Your? Reviewee.

AT: "get something done ..." try accomplish
"something" above ... a task
"something" in next use ... wait a minute thinking cap ... ooooh a chore?

Always interest an audience in editorials via letter to crowd format. Just a few tings a reviewer of OP works should know. Seldom do authors address crowds of invisible audiences without realizing they are not talking to a single person.

OF: " ... for the rest of us heavily affects ... (way) we sound ..." Really? Is this a job? Then you advise breaking from reviewing. Thank goodness, huh?

/// With: "sound to others" ... you are receiving a free gift from an author and worry about your errors ... while searching for his/ her.

Oh my oh my oh my.

[Visit the entry for more...]

April Sunday

Nov 24, 2009 at 6:15am
In response to "Should the reviewer be a reader or a writer? by Lotusneko"

Recently, finding places via wdc search which shows rev nl. Came across this one from Lotusnecko with a two prong question. "Do you think it is more important for a reviewer to be a reader or writer?"

There are few successful or TTT writers who don't do both. (TTT=To The Top re: their products, which many of us review onsite.) Now, with these questions you are tending to separate reviewers into a class which onsite and especially in this NL appears to set a reviewer into a reviewer only category. Which in all honesty, I feel is quite a shame. The revver is a person who reads, rates and writes often enough his/ her take on an item written by another author. This we know, nothing new.

Now: re: spending more time reading ... ALMOST 100% of your best writers read continuously. Some review sporadically, some never review at all.

I admit I come to this April 2009 nl with a bugaboo of my own, previously inside my head which enjoys common sense. For one thing, would like to see written pieces (poetry, stories, articles, etc etc) rewarded for being written, as per when they are written. Instead we do know, of course that revs whether brief or lengthy, helpful or worthless are rewarded daily. This is the system and we accept this. Reviews become edits; this we may note also. As it is rather obvious. All fine.

Therefore in all hope of humanity rendering a fairness ... about isn't it ever time that there be a strong, stronger, strongest emphasis on writing well, writing better and as one poster puts it on RIDING THE WRITERS WAVE FORUM from "Invalid Item" writing great ... as opposed to the feedback being either more important, or as important? I tend to wonder about this. Then I am as nature intended a questionable, sceptical creature. Eh? It must be in my blood line.

What is also a given is that writers who are serious and prolific often send great reviews with writing hints as they are learning these for themselves (not from review speak only.) Authors often research and gather author-to-author hints. Writers can make a very big difference while r/r/r-ing their fellow writers.

Lastly, one of our few means to critique a revver is inside rev replies.

ON TOPIC: See: "Reviewing Wisdom 1, 2, 3 GO!"
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#48. Should the reviewer be a reader or a writer? by Lotusneko
ID #646955 entered on April 26, 2009 at 12:40pm

#47. Boosting Reviewing Credibility - by NickyD89
ID #645087 entered on April 13, 2009 at 3:57pm

#46. Discretionary Use of Reviewing Clich�s - by Arwee
ID #641353 entered on March 20, 2009 at 1:01pm

#45. Adopting a Reviewing Persona - by Lotusneko
ID #639935 entered on March 11, 2009 at 4:45pm

#44. An Overly Critical Eye Can Cause Confusion - by Satuawany
ID #637816 entered on February 26, 2009 at 2:47pm

#43. Top Ten Reviewer Habits - by Arwee
ID #635408 entered on February 12, 2009 at 12:28pm

#42. Halloween Horror Interview Last Installment - By Lotusneko
ID #632360 entered on January 27, 2009 at 4:02pm

#41. Reviewing Poetry - by Kate
ID #629683 entered on January 14, 2009 at 5:50pm

#40. Mental Preparation Prior to Reviewing - by Arwee
ID #626236 entered on December 26, 2008 at 10:13pm

#39. Halloween Horror Interview Series Cont. - By Lotusneko
ID #625562 entered on December 22, 2008 at 9:22am

#38. How to Be Really Useful Reviewers by Lynn McKenzie
ID #621070 entered on November 28, 2008 at 10:08pm

#37. Fact Checking in Reviews - by Arwee
ID #620272 entered on November 24, 2008 at 9:14am

#36. Halloween '08 Issue - by Lotusneko
ID #616613 entered on November 4, 2008 at 11:27am

#35. Reviewing Contest Entries - by Dark Lady
ID #615010 entered on October 27, 2008 at 10:46am

#34. Explaining Technical Suggestions to a Reviewee - by Arwee
ID #610878 entered on October 3, 2008 at 11:01pm

#33. Reviewing on Other Sites Such as Amazon - by Lotusneko
ID #607918 entered on September 19, 2008 at 2:18pm

#32. Using Our Emotions When Reviewing - by Anne
ID #605558 entered on September 6, 2008 at 6:20pm

#31. Attracting Reviewers to Your Portfolio - by Arwee
ID #603365 entered on August 23, 2008 at 11:41am

#30. Part II "Bug" Reviewers in WDC Garden - by Lotusneko
ID #601547 entered on August 12, 2008 at 4:37pm

#29. Modge-Podge of Reviewing Topics - by Satuawany
ID #598467 entered on July 25, 2008 at 4:43pm

#28. Use and Abuse of Public Reviewing Page - by Arwee
ID #596535 entered on July 15, 2008 at 3:37am

#27. What Type of "Bug" Reviewer Are You? By Lotusneko
ID #593957 entered on June 30, 2008 at 10:16pm

#26. Altering Reviewing Style to Suit The Writer - Lynn McKenzie
ID #592617 entered on June 23, 2008 at 10:43am

#25. Donating Reviews to Charity - by Lotusneko
ID #587693 entered on May 28, 2008 at 3:47pm

#24. Sidenotes or Tangents in Reviews - by Starcake
ID #583026 entered on May 3, 2008 at 7:21am

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