The Great Reviewing Workshop || Jan 26th

Hello YWS!

I hope your new year is being fantastic. And just to make it that much more fantastic, YWS will be having :

The Great Reviewing Workshop of January.

It's a new year, there are lots of new faces on YWS, and lots of new shiny poetry and fiction.

And, to complete that cycle, we're going to have a review workshop geared towards a discussion on general reviewing ideas hosted by your truly, the YWS mod crew.

What

- Workshop on understanding the basics of reviewing be it poetry or fiction
- Discussion on YWS reviews and strategies.


Where
- This event will be hosted in a googleDocuments, and you shall be PMed a link later.


Who can join this party

Whether you're new among our ranks, looking to understand the process of reviewing on YWS and perhaps, meeting some of the other YWS members, or a seasoned member looking for some pointers, everyone is welcome.

And, don't forget to spread the words to your fellow friends!

When

Saturday, 26th January, 2013

Time

10:00 PM GMT. That is, 2 hours before midnight in London.
Please do use this awesome time zone converter because it has come to mu knowledge that Lava has very limited understanding of timezones.


Other time zones (which is at best, a good guesstimate):

Spoiler

USA
EST Saturday, Jan 26th, 5:00:00 PM
CST Saturday, Jan 26th, 4:00:00 PM
MST Saturday, Jan 26th, 3:00:00 PM
PST Saturday, Jan 26th, 2:00:00 PM

AUSTRALIA
WST Sunday, Jan 27th, 6:00:00 AM
CST Sunday, Jan 27th, 7:30:00 AM
EST Sunday, Jan 27th, 9:00:00 AM (There's some DST going on, I think)

INDIA Sunday, Jan 27th, 3:30:00 AM

It will run for 90 minutes all together.

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The workshop is not about genre-specific reviewing. It is not about teaching you to review.

It is simply a discussion on reviewing, the general strategies that can be followed while reviewing, and how to get that 100-point review.

Whether you review prose or poetry, this workshop will be a great place to come share your ideas, read other YWSers' reviewing ideas and most of all, have a great time with other YWSers.

I think I would very much come. The time's perfect (yey!) in my area, so I wouldn't encounter temporal conflicts at all (I think). But I'm still not sure with the date, so half and half, maybe?

Ooh, I think I'll be able to make that!

I can try and make it!

I won't be able to attend due to the fact I have a tournament that morning, but feel free to use any of my works for practice, or any of my reviews as examples of good/bad reviews. Sorry I can't make!

As for the rest of you, if you don't attend, I'll find out... probably not... but you should totally still attend!

I am so excited!!!!! can't wait:)

I think you got the time-zones wrong, 'cause unless you're holding two workshops, all the other timezones should be changed to the 26th and 27th, not the 12th and 13th. Also, for at least Eastern Australia, it would be 9 am not 8 am, so you might want to go through and fix everything up for that.

Though, I am putting myself down for attendance.

Due to the unstable health in my household, I can't commit to anything, but I will definitely be there if everything goes well!

I'm interested theoretically, but practically might be be able to do anything that isn't grad school, but I'd appreciate it if you kept me posted.

Clearly, as noni pointed out, I had made a mistake.

It's on 26th/27th of January guys. ^_^

I want to join!

I would love to join :3

Sounds fun! I dont know what time zone I'm in though

Do join us, Shina and Maddy! We'd love to have you!

Also, Claire, can you tell me in which city you reside? I could help find out your timezones.

Well, I may come or may not since I am in India but you all are free to use any of my posts as example or something...I will try my best to join but I will not make any promises...