Hi, everybody! I don't have anything uploaded to this site yet, so I'm going to be doing some reviewing. Just ask =D I do have criteria, though, so please read them before requesting a critique.
CRITERION:
Format: Generally, I will review a story/short story. I have found very few poems that I enjoy, but if you request it I may critique it, or I may not. It depends. Please give me the pitch of your poem/story in your request. I will also think about an essay, but before I accept I will scan through it.
Content: I WILL NOT read anything that has profanity, explicit sexual themes, crudity, or that promotes things like homosexuality, abortion, etc. That's the long and the short of it. If you don't warn me of it and I start reading it and find out, then I will not critique it or read it further. In other words, if it's something a Christian would object to, then I object to it.
Genre: I will read fantasy (preferably without elves), historical fiction, some kinds of general fiction (it depends), and certain essays. I will not read anything Twilight-esque. This includes, but is not limited to, vampires (especially 'vegetarion' ones), werewolves (there are exceptions to this rule: fantasy werewolves that are evil or people under an enchantment are perfectly fine), and forbidden romance. In fact, I do not enjoy romance very much. If your story has large amounts of romance, and especially if it is centered around romance, I will probably not read it.
ATTENTION:
Please specify in your request whether you want me to be harsh or lenient in my review. Lenient does not mean that I gush over your story or tell you that I love it when I actually didn't even enjoy it. It means that I will be more gentle with you. A harsh review will pick out a lot of little things, while a lenient one will mostly point out the most noticeable things.
The areas I mostly focus on are: spelling, grammar, tenses (a lot of people who write in first person tend to switch their tenses between past and present)and inconsistency. I probably won't comment on character development unless it's really, really obvious that the characters are well developed. Just because I don't say that you've developed (can't think of a synonym for it )your characters doesn't mean you haven't!
Ok, this post is getting really long, so I'll just say one more thing:
I will be honest. I will not say I liked something that I didn't. I look forward to hearing from you!
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