Comment-a-thon
OK, so first an admission -- I have not been commenting much lately.
Nor have many of you.
For reasons of exams, holidays, winter blues, whatever, we have noticed a sharp downturn in comments. This writing community is based on your feedback to each other. Post a piece, and you often -- not always -- but often get comments. Can we return to that Shangri-La?
So here's the challenge: Comment on two pieces of work every day. You don't have to go into great detail; just tell the person one thing that engaged you, as a reader, about the piece and one thing that you wondered about, -- one thing that might be improved in the piece.
Think of how much you appreciate hearing from someone that they read your piece. Pass on the love. Click the "more" button on "Recent Blogs" and find a piece that does not have a comment.
I promise to do this. Every day. For the next 30 days. At least.
gg
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It's exams. They drain your
It's exams. They drain your brain, soul, and the ability to form coherent sentences.
However, now that they are over, I also promise to comment more. A late New Year's resolution.
~Circe
I'm very much for this
I'm very much for this suggestion. I definitely haven't been on to post or comment much recently. It's frightening...all my posts are from last year! Time to get the words flying again...
Cheers~
Muse
"Sad is the day when America becomes afraid of mere words that are spoken or printed."
~Harry Weinberger
I quite like this idea. I
I quite like this idea. I feel like YWP is so much less unified than it used to be, and I want to help change that.
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"The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation."
Definitely
Exams are a slow, painful way to die, and they also kill life in the process. I agree. I know I love it when people comment on my stuff; I will try my best to do the same for others.
You know what I'm feeling?
You know what I'm feeling? You know what time it is?
I think it's time for some giant, unnecessary, multiparagraph übercomments.
We're baaaaaaaack....
-Locke, and by association but not necessarily by choice, Peter.
I'm all for...
...multiparagraphed, ubercomments that break into freaky but somehow understandable tangents....
gg
GG:
Ha ha, I noticed!
Live like you've only a day,
Laugh like there's no tommorow,
Love everyone and everything.
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"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."
~Brendan Gill