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Local Authors => Reading Excuses => Topic started by: Necroben on December 18, 2008, 04:26:58 AM
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This is a poll of Silk's question in "Just a thought." I just thought it would be easier to keep up with if we had it (the votes) here.
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I would love to, however, ideally everyone would have already read the chapters previous (even if they didn't critique), and would only need a brief reminder. But, yes, I'm all for it.
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Ben's all about the polls.
To answer your thought from the previous thread, Ben: I don't mean anything really onerous, like a detailed synopsis. I'm thinking of just two or three sentences, or even just copy-pasting the last paragraph of the previous submission into the new document.
Alternatively, everyone could just send out the same document each time and add to it - like first submission would be chapter one, second submission would be chapter one and two, and then all everyone would have to do would be to say "new stuff starts on page - ".
Just something to get people back into each submission without actually having to hunt down the previous file and reread it.
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Ben's all about the polls.
To answer your thought from the previous thread, Ben: I don't mean anything really onerous, like a detailed synopsis. I'm thinking of just two or three sentences, or even just copy-pasting the last paragraph of the previous submission into the new document.
Alternatively, everyone could just send out the same document each time and add to it - like first submission would be chapter one, second submission would be chapter one and two, and then all everyone would have to do would be to say "new stuff starts on page - ".
Just something to get people back into each submission without actually having to hunt down the previous file and reread it.
I could go for that. I just have so much other writing to do that I kinda have to jealously guard the time I schedule for it. Sorry if seem negative.
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I think most of the time a single sentence would suffice: "Frodo finds ring, leaves home."
Next time it'd be "Frodo finds ring, leaves home, meets Strider."
You can't consider writing that little work, but it should be enough to get everyone back on track for the next part. Also, it takes far less time to read that one sentence than to reread everything sent before, or even only the last paragraph (plus it gives more info). Re-sending everything and then saying where the new part begins could be a real timesink, what with ever growing file sizes and all that. Easier to add a one-sentence summary of what happened before.
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I'm with Twinky.
(I need a shirt with that line..)
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I'm all for recaps. Now to get back to work, I promise to finish critiquing everyone tomorrow.