You've read a poem, infact you've just finished reading the 66th poem in a row to mark your contest and your running out of idea's on what to write. Well don't fear, as well as building up your point pile again you can comment on the work without having to think for a life time!
I write from experiance here, my first competition got 66 entries in just 2 days and I was forced to close it just so I could read them all. I make it my aim to coment on every peice entered into a competition, it makes the author feel wanted and liked, just to know some one has read your work and made the effort to coment. It doesn't matter if there are million coments on the peice already, I bet your personal opinion has not been expressed exactly as you would express it.
I know it can be boring reading poems over and over again but, if your running a competition, or if your just reading it for points there are a few easy ways to get some quick points. Mention your favourite stanza [if you don't know what a stanza is, it's the equivilent of a paragraph in a story] and why, it's emotional, expressive, just stands out because of the metaphoric use. Tell them area's of improvement maybe spelling, punctuation and such. Wish them good luck with their writing, add what you might do differently like changing the title or certain words with in a line to let it flow better.
Finaly, tell the writter what you thought about the peice, what you liked and what you didn't use a variety of langauge and don't just stick to the 'modern bile'. It's easyer than you could ever imagine.
This is my first column so depending on how well this goes down i may write more!
Best of luck in your future cometning and poetry,
Gorecki.
All rights reserved (c) Gorecki 2009
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Wow.
Mr. Jjbellinski....
(grins; darkly)
...arent we adversarial.
(cracks his neck)
Passive aggressive as well.
...that was quite the critique.
(smirks)
Poignant.
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This is a good and helpful article.
I like this article very much, Goreki. I’m fairly new here. I joined back in November of 2008 but, I never actually submitted anything until about two weeks ago. So I find this article to have been of considerable help to me. I’d like to take a few minutes to point out a few ways you could make it even better. There are a few mistakes. They are the kinds of mistakes we‘ all make. I still make them and you might even find some in this comment. I’ll refer to paragraphs as-
P 1: Line 1- infact should be in fact.
P 1: Line 4- just as an example. I’ll do the same with all the different paragraphs if I see any errors.
The reason I’m doing this is because this is a very good and worthwhile article. So here goes:
P 1: Line 5- life time is one word, lifetime.
P 2: Line 1- Spelling: experience should be experience.
Line 3- coment should be comment.
Line 5- some one is one word. ‘someone’
Line 6- coment should be comment. Also put an ‘a’ between are and million.
Line 7- coment – comment. peice should be piece.
P 3: Line 2- or if your just reading- use you’re instead of your.
Line 5- equivalent- should be equivalent.
Line 6- just stands out because of the metaphoric use. I would try-
or it just stands out because of the metaphoric use. I think this way
it will flow better way if you read it aloud.
P 4: Line 1- Finaly should be Finally; writter should be writer; piece should be
piece.
P 4 Line 1 & 2- what you liked and what you didn't. Use a variety of language-
langauge should be language.
P 4: Line 3 It’s easyer should be It’s easier.
P 5: Line 2- I should be I. (Capitalized)
Line 3- cometning should be commenting
Like I said before, this is a very good article. The few mistakes are the kind make myself. We’re only human, and we all make mistakes. That doesn’t change the fact that you have written a very good and helpful article here.
I’m glad I’ve been able to offer you some constructive criticism.
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This helps me being new to AP; thank Ecki, love you always no matter how much we can argue at times <3 -
Ha ha, sorry to hear you had to read so many poems, but the tips are great, thanks for all the info i'll make sure to use it when i read your work! Best of luck, Aussie.
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