- Rocket Queen:
- What's Scribophile like? I was just on that site and it says how it's THE place for serious writers to get their stories critiqued. But is it really that good?
It's really good for critiques because, for one, each critique has to hit a certain word-count before the user gets points for it - and you need to have a certain amount of points to post your own story.
Each new story gets a plot of time on their 'critiquing' page and it doesn't get taken down until you get three reviews. Because users have to critique stories to get points to post their own stories, and because your posted story can't get onto the main page until the current stories are bumped off, it usually doesn't take too long for you to receive your critiques.
But the same problems that occur when using Mibba's Story Review thread happens here; sometimes people only focus on pointing out spelling/grammatical errors and don't comment on the actual comment of the stories.
Scribophile is great if you have a lot of time to devote to commenting other stories, but over all, for me, it's more 'work' than it's worth. I'd prefer to just use the Story Review thread or even a site like Writing.com - which implements a point system (you can receive points for reviewing a piece and you can use your points to entice other members to review your piece).