Date Posted:21:57:27 05/06/10 Thu Author:debikm Subject: What a coincidence. I lowered the level of debris in my house today too! In reply to:
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>One of the links used to outline the rules and
>regulations for homework, ie: frequency of assigments,
>maximum word count, the kinds of crits it could be
>expected to receive, etc. Debi, since you're our new
>homework goddess, I'd like to hear from you on the
>guidelines for these assigments. I think the maximum
>word count used to be 1,500 so it wouldn't be
>cumbersome to read, but I can't remember.
Okay, here's my two cents on the Homeworks. I post about every two weeks, with usually two suggestions or prompts. I'm trying to be creative with them but I'm always open to suggestions. I think 1500 words was the limit before, but I'm not above reading more. A warning "This is long!" is nice, lets me know that I need to have some time to reqd and reply. The crits I guess are whatever the author is looking for, or as much as the reader is willing to give. If someone asks for a hard crit, give 'em one, I say.
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>Another link used to be for the Lit Forum Library, but
>I can't tell you for the life of me what was there.
>Esther? JulieO? Anyone remember?
Dunno... maybe we could make it into links to writing resources, though. Agents blogs, writing contests, reference pages, thesaurus and dictionary links, that kind of thing.
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>I think another link pertained to crits - the
>different kinds of crits (hard, soft, cheerleader,
>etc.), how to give a crit, and how to respond to one.
>Anyone have any suggestions for this one?
That crit link is fantabulous! And thankee for the HW r&r. Now to set up an angelfire account and start creating those pages while waiting for everyone else to weigh in.
debikm