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>Story Reviews: No, I don't mean what the Training Grounds does, I mean what Chris at One Man's Pony Ramblings does. Sure, we have the recommendation/request thread, but people don't post objective, thorough reviews there. They post recommendations. Then there's the monthly "most overrated fics" thread that gets swamped with "My Little Dashie" and "Past Sins" responses, but that's not particularly helpful either. So why don't we have a thread for people to post objective, well-thought-out reviews of stories they've read?
That's an interesting idea, and I'd actually like to see it happen. Why people aren't doing it, well, most people haven't even thought of doing so, much less dare to, because they don't quite qualify, I myself being chief example. The thing about TG-style reviewing is all you need to be is a reader, someone who reads and can formulate an opinion. Entry requirements really aren't all that high. The thing about the sort Chris does is that you need to be pretty darn well-read to be able to comment on areas as thoroughly and, for the lack of a better word, professionally. Chris' evident knowledge is his credentials. After Chris, though, people will want to make sure that the opinion they're reading is a good one, and not that many people have that sort of reputation weight to toss around. In short, it's a venture with high requirements and low return potential. For example, I recall Josh Meihaus having a blog that dissected episodes. I don't think it's got as much traffic as Chris' does (I'm happy to be proven wrong).
Also, imo, TG-style reviews function better as a means for authors to improve, because you don't have to worry about making it accessible to a broad audience. Which is kinda what /fic/'s main purpose is. Doesn't mean that we can't have it, just that, y'know, a wholesale substitution of review for review uhh would make it harder for authors to improve.
>Literary Analysis: You know, what we all did in high school English. Picking examples of writing from good, bad, or popular stories and illustrating for everyone's benefit exactly what is good and what is bad about those pieces of writing. Those of us who have "reviewed" stories in TTG generally do this at a very basic level, for the benefit of a single story's author. Why not do it at a higher level with popular authors, for the general benefit? Why not publicly scrutinize My Little Dashie, relying heavily on quotes from the story to illustrate precisely what makes it mediocre? Why not put shortskirtsandexplosions under the spotlight? New authors need to be shown that writing isn't a process of luck, and that good stories are good because they accomplish specific goals, and that accomplishing these goals is a skill that can be learned, rather than a result of "genius" or "inspiration".
Isn't that pretty much the same as above, except that it's a more community-geared thing? Well, yeah, it can be done, but then you'd have "That's just your opinion" "If you don't like it, don't read it!11!" "lolwut" and, my personal fav, "haters gunn hate" flooding your thread. If, of course, it attracts such traffic, and this is /fic/ after all.
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