(One-Shot) Review Exchange

Ladies and Gentleman (?), in honour of the ending of my exams for this semester, I proudly present:

The One-Shot Review Exchange

*as shamelessly gacked from fictonalley park.

I tried to explain this in my own terms, and failed, so I shall just steal the post from that particular website:

Here's how it works:
* You offer your fic to the previous (commenter), and in exchange review the story given to you by the next (commenter. In effect, you pick your reviewer.
* One-shots only, of course
* Please point out if you won't read R-rated fics [snip]

So, I will be the 'first poster' who will leave a review to the first person who comments with a link to their one-shot (which can be located on LJ, fanfiction.net, SWG, HASA, etc). Please do not post links to NC-17 stories, as I'm still confused about what LJ's policies on adult content and linking adult content is. (We can always have an adult one-shot exchange at some point in the future... LOL... ack)

Let's say the first commenter is dawn_felagund. She leaves a link to "Paper". I will follow this link and leave a review.

The next person - let's say, heartofoshun, would reply directly to dawn_felagund with a link to one her own one-short stories, e.g. "Full Brothers in Blood". As per the 'rules' of the game, dawn_felagund will leave a review for this particular story by heartofoshun.

And the next player will reply to heartofoshun, carrying on the cascade.

Does this make any sense at all? :S

The point of this exchange, I suppose, is to 1) help other people get feedback, because what author does not like reviews, and 2) get out there, reading fic, and reviewing it. Maybe you'll read something that you don't usually read, and find that you actually like it!

When you do get around to leaving a review - please take the time to leave a comment that is more than just one line (or, eek, one word). It doesn't have to be constructive - but I do ask that you put a bit of thought into it. ;)

That said, please make a note of points of squick, etcetera, in your comments - and please take note of these things when you reply to someone's comment, and be respectful of that. (Please be reasonable and not demanding, however!)

You are allowed to participate more than once, but please allow two more comments between your previous comment and the next one. :) Ideally, you should have comment notifications turned on, so you'll receive comment replies and such.

This will only take off if people participate, so I sincerely hope this isn't too ridiculous an idea. ;) After all, this is the Silmarillion Writers Guild, and feedback is an important part of the writing process, yes? :)


Edit: Clarification on What Construes A One-Shot
Right, I kept telling myself I should do this, and forgot, apologies. (Also, thanks Allie and Alassante for commenting, yay participation :D)

Stories must be more than 750 words long, so no drabbles, I'm afraid. However, a drabble series like Alassante's "Feanorian Fates", where all drabbles follow one clear-cut theme, which can all can be compiled into one document and read straight-through, is okay. If you are submitting a drabble series, it must follow a fixed, specific theme and more importantly, be complete, to stay in the spirit of the 'one-shot' part of this exchange.

Stories within a particular series are okay, too. Allie's "Divine Intervention" is technically a mutli-chaptered fic, but I suppose you could consider a series of sorts, where each 'chapter' can stand alone by itself without needing to read the others - it's a bit iffy though, so if we can just avoid that altogether but linking to individual/particular fics, I would appreciate it much. (allie_meril I will read both chapters/poems? of your fic and consider both in my review, since I just made this clarification. :D)

I have nothing against multi-chaptered stories. But since I had no idea how well received this activity would be, I decided to just go with one-shots for the time being. If everyone could submit their stories appropriately, I would appreciate it! :D And sorry for all the confusion, guys!