Thoughts about Comments
I love all the comments that we do in this class because it
lets us read the stories and blog posts from our other classmates and how they
interpret some of the stories. Sometimes
their stories can even help spark my imagination and help me with my writing,
too. Everyone in this class is also so
nice when it comes to the comments that they post. All of them have been very uplifting and
motivating to keep writing stories.
The thing that makes comments the most helpful to me is when
they start off with a positive about the story and then critique it to make it
even better. The comments that are all
compliments are really nice to read but I also want to know how to make my
stories and writings even better so I can learn from them.
The comments that are memorable to me are the ones that pick
about my stories that I write in the storytelling column and give me advise
about making my next one even better. The comments that truly leave an
impression are the ones that I can tell someone could really relate to my story
and the ones that read the original so it was easy for them to compare the two
stories.
Really great comments should include something positive and
also a friendly critique to make either that story or the next story that the
author writes even better. I am usually
a good commenter when it comes to starting off with the positives but I don’t
always include something that the author can work on. In my comments, sometimes it is hard to
understand someone else’s writing style so it’s hard for me to critique it
their stories. I will work harder on
trying to incorporate some bits of advise to my comments so the author can
learn and grow from what I have to say.
Hi Alyse! I like how your thoughts on comments went into detail as to why you like and dislike things that other writers do in this class. I always try to start off my comments with a positive note and then a criticism, so maybe that has happened already for me with you? My memory is a little foggy since we do so much writing in this class! Anyways, keep up the open mindset about commentary and I hope that the rest of your semester goes well in this class as well as others!
ReplyDeleteI would agree a positive note and a critique is nice, I always like when people tell me what I can do better to make my stories better. For the first time this week I had read one of the original stories that the person wrote their stories about so I knew more while reading it. It actually helped me out having already read it, but I can't read every original story before reading the story. We read so much in this class it is hard to spend extra time reading another story, and then sometimes stories start to run together since we do read so much. Having read the original does help a lot though.
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