When you read the reviews of people on here, the same thing is repeated and repeated and reapeated and repeated and reapeated over and over again! The thing is that people do not comprehend is that it does not need to be perfect. Some of the greatest peices eve are not perfect.
Okay, I have to agree when it comes to things like spelling mistakes and missing question marks it is fine to point out and be acknowledge but the rest really does not have to be.
A literary technique is going against the set sentence structure and vocabulary as it can create all manner of things and facts about the characters. For example:
"Hello," she said sweetly, "Would you like to buy a flower?" This is perfectly fine but it tell us nothing about the character.
"Hullo," she said sweetly, "Flower, would you buy flower?" It is essentially the same sentence but gives us so much more about characters. It tells you she is lower class and immediately gives her an accent.
People tend not to like this. The consider it bad literature and there would be comments like "this does not make sense." or "Change the word order."
One thing that some do like is the dialouge dictation.
"Jack come and tell ya 'ol dad what happen."
"I dun wonna dad."
There is nothing that tells you who said what and makes the reader have to fucus more instead of just glancing over it without a passing care! It is not that it is not needed sometimes, but the majority of the time it is just getting more characters.
Sentence styling is another thing that is picked up on. Some people like big complex multi-clause sentences. Overs prefer ones with a few words. Both are acceptable! 'tis fine to say, maybe this could work better if. . ., but just pointing it out and saying it is bad(which I have noticed) is not. Short, long, it is all good.
Poems can rhyme. How I long for a rhyming poetry. Okay, a lot of rhyming poetry is not good. But instead of dismissing it straight away maybe offer how it can be improved whilst keeping in their originally concept. One of the best poems ever was going to not be published due to rhyme and now it is widely acknowledged to be a classic.(The Raven. Edgar Allan Poe.)
Things vary from place to place; for example if I said Mardy, a lot of people would look at me confused. It is perfectly fine to have these words in, and if you don't understand ask for a definition rather than ruling it out.
Let the clichés be! If someone is writing an over used idea, let them run with it but offer guidance in how it can work within the cliché
And i'm not saying I do none of these things, I do and have done in the past, but I'm trying to rectify them now. If i've done any of these things to your work, I am sorry. And we, as writers, should be able to appreciate others work in a sense which is unique. Each piece should be looked as an individual piece, not just another on a website. But the point is it does not have to be perfect. Really doesn't, as when it becomes perfect, it loses all it's individuality. The flaws, are not really flaws they just become a different style of writing.
*sighs*
BYE!
