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"I was born in 1085.  It was the worst mistake I ever made."

"I was born in 1085.  I should have known better."

It's over 20 between meli2235's post here and mine.

It shouldn't work that way.  It shouldn't w............ .... ....  ....  ....   ...   ...   ...    ..    ..    ..     .     .

Your portfolio shows empty.  There's nothing for anyone to review!  Have you taken the 'publish' step on your works?  Have you published them to either the Premium or Free group where they can be widely seen?

They don't generally let tandems or larger near the city limits.  It's hard enough to get a single-articulation around a streetcorner.  I never saw a triple until I drove in Ohio.

Okay, you haven't seen any new work from me in a while.  I've been wrestling with Erevain, and with some plot shaping.  I need a better sense of where he found his tinfoil hat and what style he prefers.

Why not look at a few longer works in progress and see the sort of reviews that people write--and the sort that people reply to, and hold discussions about?

Reviewing is a craft developed by practice and by emulating the best examples of others.  Nor will every reviewer necessarily review every work the same way.  It helps to be able to consider the work under review both as a reader and as a writer.

Writer and reviewer should share one purpose: to make the work as good as practicable.  They sometimes differ on the means.  It's unavoidable; the reviewer guesses at what the writer is aiming for.

Consider what the writer needs and asks for.  Some need more help with typos; some with disconnected ('dangling') modifiers, some with structure or other parts of the craft of writing.

If you're unsure, read the work of many reviewers.  See what they offer.  Find what you can offer.

Will  review later.  Looks pretty good.

I suggest you change the title of the chapter to Fish for Dinner.  If you give away too much, you lose the impact.  The creators of A Chorus Line found this out when the song they named T*ts and A** (from its refrain) fell flat in tryouts.  But as Dance Ten, Looks Three, it became a showstopper.

Check your one-too-many account.

There is an art to faking jargon.  Call it The Art of the Self-Sealing Stem Bolt.
I need to think about how this derrick would be put together, to understand how to make it fall apart.

A connection is a person-to-person link, and seems in that to be more selective than membership in a common group.  It would seem a natural progression for a less selective relationship to lead to a more selective relationship, but to require the more selective relationship as a precondition of the less would seem to reverse this naturally ordered progression.

My $0.02, of course.

Oh, yes.  Acreage to support a family depends on the soil, the climate, the size of the family, whether woodland game is available, or there is other land for grazing and pasturing.  But 5 acres sounds like numbers I have read as reasonable, given climate and soil like those of southern and central England in recent centuries.