It's summer. I'm bored. Let me review.
I will only look at fantasy or science fiction offerings for now. Sorry, but I have to limit the pool in order to get requests for stories that will interest me. I will not finish reading a piece unless it manages to capture my interest in some slight way. There is a much higher chance that I will take interest in a speculative fiction story than a general, historical, or romantic story.
I can be bothered to make exceptions. Most likely I will make an exception if I know you, or have read your writing before and know it to be...well, interesting.
I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT DO POETRY.
This thread will close by August 30th, when I have to go to my college for orientation. I anticipate a busy freshman year so I will not review at all throughout the 2010-2011 school year. If you give me a novel to review, chances are I will follow it until the school year starts, unless I end up liking it enough to review it instead of studying.
Until then, you can request reviews from me that look like this:
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I am very nitpicky. I once wrote seven paragraphs analyzing a single sentence. I will tear apart your work at the sentence level. My comments focus on sentence structure, concision, word choice, and detail. I also do make plot and character comments, sprinkled throughout the review and gathered into an "overall comments" section at the end. In sci fi and fantasy, I look for internal consistency in a world as well as common, easily abused tropes.
My style is very much tl;dr. If you find it tl;dr, then just scroll past the entire review and read the little sentence labeled "tl;dr" at the end. I wouldn't advise that, though. If you want short reviews you shouldn't be asking me.
It takes about an hour on a good day to do one of these monsters, more if the story is longer.
If your story looks way too long (I'd say I draw my limit at about 5000~6000 words--but the guidelines say 2000 words for a reason!), I won't read it at all. No refunds, no apologies, unless you chop it up into a bunch of smaller pieces.
Now request away. I should keep up a good pace (I'm aiming on three monster reviews a day) untl the summer ends.
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