Providing feedback
Rate a narrative | Commenting on a narrative
Part of each member's role is to provide feedback for the stories we read. We do this through ratings and commenting.
We provide three different ratings for each story: originality, quality of story and quality of writing.
Originality: Begin by realizing work inspired by other creative work isn't necessarily lacking in originality. Most genre work is built upon the efforts of other creative types who worked on similar material in the past. The main quality this should represent is whether the idea being presented is truly original: whether the scene, characters or scenario are truly original, even if they draw on previous ideas. If a majority of the work is templated on a previous piece of work or full of tropes, there isn't a lot of originality present. The best way to measure this is to go with your gut feeling: if it feels tired and overly familiar, it probably isn't very original.
Quality of story: This represents how well the story comes together. It includes believability, structure and scene. It identifies if there is enough conflict, emotion, action and well written and believable dialogue to keep the reader interested.
Quality of writing: This is probably the easiest to rate. It really involves how well the story is written. It doesn't necessarily measure the quality of the writer, but how well the writing presents the story. Another way to view it is whether poor writing (grammar issues, poor sentence structure, misspellings, etc...) keeps you from enjoying the story. From fully understanding the idea being presented.
- We use a star system
