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What do you mean ... toast. It doesn't sound good at all njc. Is this because you have extra boxes around from your mother? Speaking of your mum, I can't type my exact thoughts regarding the timing of this re-inspection ... honestly, consideration and understanding are really scarce these days. Will a month or so really make such a massive difference? Your idiot landlord is on my list of people I don't like a lot as in don't like AT ALL.

LOL, I was more referring to my reviewing niche ... but I'll take this! *high five*

Work. Whoever came up with that idea, needs to be shot. Dead. And then shot again. Dead-er. It keeps on interfering with my writing time and reviews ... and all the other stuff that's way more fun. Anyways, how old are the computers njc? Is it for your use?

I'm going with zombie ...

If I had to guess, I'd say that it doesn't come down to the quality of reviews, but might change the number of revisions writers will put their work through before publishing?

I wholeheartedly agree with Dirk's entire post. And if you think about it, if we have the capability to reward reviewers using our points, then there is nothing stopping you to enter a private agreement with someone to review your entire novel for a certain number of points.

For those who don't have enough points, either review more or post less novels or post less new chapters or don't award reviewers (for both quality and quantity). That will also give reviewers some much breathing space to keep up with their reviews. And I'm fully aware of my bias in that I only work on a single book at a time, so members who prefer working on multiple books at any given time, might not like this idea so much. But I honestly think it will balance things a lot more than anything else.

Heck, I'll let go of wanting the "old forum" format back if I can have this!

But then again, Poor John Doe, newest TNBW member, doesn't have more than 1-5 chapters posted ... Admittedly, they also have problems with not getting any reviews - the bonus points to review their work has been brought in for that exact purpose recently. It would be interesting if Sol could let us know (after enough time has elapsed) whether the extra bonus points did make a difference. If so, giving bonus points for reviewing complete works might also work. And if poor John Doe reads through my whole novel (which if I follow jp's advice will be a breeze ), he will find himself with more points too and he/she can also start to do this thing.

On a completely different trend ... What overwhelms me and prevent me to read complete works is when writers have more than one novel going. I can always ask which novel they want to have reviewed first, but then something else pops up that I can review instead (or I have a message to reply to and I forget what I was doing in my inbox in the first place) and I never do and when I remember to look at that work again, it's so far gone I'll never be able to catch up again. Which brings me to another point, some writers simply publish new chapters at a rate that is impossible to keep up with. Which brings me to another point, I have so many recips to do, that I simply can't review complete works anymore, especially those that publish new chapters at an unbelievable rate.

And then life steps in and you move to a new country on the other side of the world, and you have so many recips to do, you're drowning and it is impossible to catch up and read complete novels (and you're also here to write ...). And I have had the time to do 3-4 reviews a day most days in my previous uncomplicated life and had been in a fortunate position to review complete novels (because I'm like that, I finish things I start - it's a strength and a weakness), and now I have so many points I can dish out to reviewers I know would be able to use it much better than I can because I write so damn slowly and only need a fraction of them to post my own work, giving me more points to stick with novels will not make one bit of a difference (I don't need more points and I simply don't have the time).

So in short, what I'm trying to say is, it's not that simple. And more points doesn't address the problem - only part of it.

Personally, if I can transfer points to others to thank them for whatever, it would make my day.

And, that is also why I so understand why reviewers do not stick with me, so no need to apologise!

Final request not to derail this thread any further. Take it to your own thread or to Fight Club, this is not the intent of this thread.
Thanks Janet

I'm a "finisher" too, it helps those without the gift!

Just lament lamentfully at how no-one sticks with your story and how you need someone to read through the whole thing to let you know what you've intended to bring across, came across. So I'm just reading and not reviewing in detail (although I'm making notes here and there when I see stuff that needs fixing IMO).

And of course, you need to review my writing dutifully, otherwise I will never talk to you ever again after I've gone through all this trouble (I'm like an elephant when it comes to remembering certain things - and this is one of them!). It's not my genre too, which makes it triple hard.

Heh, I don't even have to like you and I'll still do it. I'm such a push-over.

So basically, in your case, you don't even have to buy me wine ... But no more than 14 chapters, 10 even better. With wine, 20 chapters!

I'm really worried I "don't get it" though .... so I'm making all kinds of notes LOL