Panick Attacks for first reviews?
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- moderntimes
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Re: Panick Attacks for first reviews?
Your principal objective is to write a fair, honest, and thoughtful review of the book. Little else matters.
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We writers have no problems with a reviewer who disagrees with us, so long as the reviewer's opinions are backed up with good logic. But unfair reviews? Authors dislike them.
One example I've given before --- if the novel is a mystery, and it's a slam-bang action thriller, if a reviewer prefers the more sedate type of "Agatha Christie" drawing-room mystery, and therefore downgrades the book accordingly, that's unfair. If however, the reviewer finds flaws in the action thriller, that it's not as well written as it could have been, and there are for example plot holes, then a downrating of the book is a fair analysis.
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I have to agree that practice is important, and I wish sometimes that I had 30 instead of 24 hours a day so I could practice more often
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Then write this down in a more "formal" style, and this should be a good template for your review. In other words, tell the readers a story about the book you just read.
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That's a good idea!moderntimes wrote:My recommendations include this: just write the review as if you were telling a good friend about this book you read. You'd not just tell the plot, but you'd describe the characters, the themes of the book, and your impressions about whether the story was well presented, the characters were believable, and so on.
Then write this down in a more "formal" style, and this should be a good template for your review. In other words, tell the readers a story about the book you just read.
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Thanks for this good advice! Wish I was able to read this thread two reviews ago.moderntimes wrote:My recommendations include this: just write the review as if you were telling a good friend about this book you read. You'd not just tell the plot, but you'd describe the characters, the themes of the book, and your impressions about whether the story was well presented, the characters were believable, and so on.
Then write this down in a more "formal" style, and this should be a good template for your review. In other words, tell the readers a story about the book you just read.
For those worrying about grammar, there's this app called Grammarly which does way better proofreading than Word. Though it still has a few unnecessary corrections, I think.
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Happy to help. Let me know how you find it. I'd be glad to hear your thoughts on the app.MsMartha wrote:Thanks for the Grammarly information--I will take a look at it.
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