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8 comments:
Yayy :)
WOOHOO!!!
Thanks, EA!
Thank you. I hope this burst of blogging means your life has eased up a little.
Hurraaay! This makes my day! Thanks EA!
Just curious, have you ever requested the manuscript off the Anonymati slush pages?
Magolla --
She can't request pages from the Anonymati. She's anonymous :)
magolla -- she can't, I don't think, because then the Anonymati would "Know" who she was.
(stepping on soapbox:)
If there are 90 some odd people waiting for critiques, why are only three or four people offering their own advice for the ones up now? I don't get this. I've commented on every single one and its cost me nothing. Give a little if you want to get something! Surely you can find something helpful to say, even if it's just emphasizing someone else's point or offering a new way to think about something. Don't you want people to comment on yours?
(stepping off soapbox)
Soapbox Anon- I usually don't comment on EVERY first page-- only the ones where I have something constructive and non-repetitive to add to the discussion. Maybe other people are doing the same?
Though I guess it would be better to comment even when mine ARE a repeat, so the author can see that multiple folks see the same thing....
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