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If the point system were modified to allow the author to "spend" points to "hire" specific members to review their chapters would their be any significant drawbacks that outweighed the benefits? Some of the benefits I could see is it would address repeated concerns mentioned by others. Hiring good reviewers has the overall effect of allowing them to gain points faster and other reviewers that do subpar (subjective to the author's POV to be sure) work will feel the pressure to elevate their review quality if they want to partake of more than just the minimum points set for a review.

It's an interesting concept and one I've been turning over in my mind for awhile. There is no programming limitation. It's something I think we will definitely experiment with in the upcoming year. Thanks for the suggestion.

You want to discuss writing?  I intend to be courteous and helpful, but I really think someone needs to teach the principles of writing somewhere on the site.  I have just spent an evening trying to find something to read.  The short stories aren't stories--mostly they're editorial opinions, and that's not to say that editorials are bad, it's just that I like to read stories.  How can I be polite and helpful when I can't tell what the author is trying to say?  Okay, that's round one.  Would somebody like to start a group or forum called Writing 101?
P.S. And yes, there were threads on the old site forums that offered instruction--I learned some things there.

Ah, Cobber's icon has now been replaced with Sol's smiling visage. Hmm. Did I stumble upon a secret and now must be eliminated before the TNBW world can go beserk?

Seabrass wrote:

Change the version number.

How does the version number differ from the draft number?

I published the most profound avant-garde science fiction novel in the history of the Internet (PRUNELLA) through an Indian publisher in serial installments. Even though I never finished it (illness), a year later I found it being hocked on sites from evil terrorist lands to used car dealerships in Canada.

One note: I now understand it was just too avant-garde for the likes of tNBW (har-har). I also realize that dagnee, my only steadfast reviewer for this comic masterpiece, is a true genius!

This is not a bug, but it bugs me. I don't know how to open a new topic on this forum, so I'll just add my concern to "Site bugs." When someone posts a large number of new posts in one or two days (12 for example) the "New posts from your groups" listing is filled with that person's posts, and one must go forward quite a way to see additional posts to find something by another author. Does this bother anyone else? The posts remain at the top of the list until those of us who are less prolific post our work. Currently, this is in the Poems and Short Stories sections -- three on December 9, and nine on December 10. The only solution I see would be to impose a limit to the number of new posts in a day, but that seems overly controlling.

We released several changes to the site today based on your feedback.

The first is a prominent change to how the homepage now displays new content to review. The feedback we received on the homepage was that the images were way too big and you liked the way the old site listed new writing by type. So, we have done that. It still needs a bit of work, but this is the general idea. If it looks terrible, you may need to clear the cache on your device. To do this on a non-Mac computer or laptop, press the ctrl and F5 keys simultaneously. On Macs or iPads, etc. you should just have to refresh the page. I'm still working on the correct combination for Android devices.

The second change is that we made some tweaks to the replay boxes on in-line and regular reviews to hopefully resolve issues iPad users have been having.  Let us know if leaving comments is any better.

Lastly, we modified the code a bit so that your points totals on the homepage are updated across devices.

Thanks.
Sol

What do you think about a themed writing moment for the group?  I find that suggestions like that bring out a creative side.  They make me think outside the box. 

Would anyone be interested?  We could start the story with the same line and see what happens.  We could also make it so that we are writing our first memory, a story about a pivotal person in our lives (from their POV), or a giving personality to an inanimate object in our house. 

Weigh in, people!

A

On several other writing sites I have seen chapters that seem to go on forever.  Not so much poetry, which tends to be a lot shorter, but novels and even "short" stories.  I try to keep my chapters mostly from 1000 to 2000 words and short stories from 1500 to 2500 words.  Is that excessive, or about right?  I don't want to start off here on the wrong foot.

Tom

I DIED A FEW MONTHS BACK... from, can you believe this: constipation. Combine that with low blood pressure at the bottom of the body, and high blood pressure at the top; then I stood up. BAM! I went to the death and falling place. In the ambulance the blood pressure was 50/30. In the ER room they were confounded and unable to rouse me. I was going down for good. And I knew it! A major enema and 23 hours later, I came back.

When falling earlier, I hallucinated the mother of all horror movies. First person present seeing a film of ... I can't explain it!... 10000 words might try to explain it.  I think I saw into an exploding vagus nerve... somehow.

Now I fear constipation as much as I fear guns. You think I kidding, but I am consuming fiber with 100 fl oz of water to fight off this monster daily. I pop stool softeners like candy and I drink super espresso in the a.m. like an Italian.

I'm warming up for writing a horror story using this topic.  It is so unusual ( and real, Anatomic Hyperreflexia)... ooops, gotta go, I really got to go...