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Jul. 10th, 2006 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212It's been a day full of ups and downs.
For example, cramps = pain and annoyance to the infinite exponent. But finding out that your mother had made chocolate cookies definitely improves the situation.
And the kids had a dramatic turnaround, from spending the morning fussing and whining at each other to being remarkably well-behaved this afternoon.
And I had good news and bad news on the most recent prophet_elite point totals. (Non-H_E members of the flist, that's where certain members of H_E who have won a contest can post stories or artwork for extra points for their house.) On the one hand, I know from the quick estimates I did when I posted the stories that I could earn between 10-20 points, depending on how well recieved the stories were. I also know that with my total score, I recieved at least one Excellent, and that the most likely scores on the others were Good, to explain how I earned the point total I recieved. So that's good news. The bad news is that I'm really starting to understand why people object to not knowing the point breakdowns. I know that I did very well on one story, but not which one, so I have no idea which styles worked well for others, and which did not. I mean, I can say that I felt happiest about how one story worked out, and I thought that another story was weaker than the others, but that's mainly influenced by the fact that I don't feel comfortable writing 'ship in general, and has nothing to do, objectively, with the story's merits. Argh, I just really wish the prophet editors were allowed to leave point breakdowns or concrit.
By the way, given that rant I just worked through, if there's ever anything you want to point out, positive or negative, about one of my stories, do so with my blessing. I've got a strong enough hide to take a good bit of constructive criticism, and I'm aware that I'm still learning how to write good stories.
And that reminds me, I still have to put up the next bit of my other Doctor Who story.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ljmckay is probably wondering what happened to it, after she got the edits back to me so fast.
For example, cramps = pain and annoyance to the infinite exponent. But finding out that your mother had made chocolate cookies definitely improves the situation.
And the kids had a dramatic turnaround, from spending the morning fussing and whining at each other to being remarkably well-behaved this afternoon.
And I had good news and bad news on the most recent prophet_elite point totals. (Non-H_E members of the flist, that's where certain members of H_E who have won a contest can post stories or artwork for extra points for their house.) On the one hand, I know from the quick estimates I did when I posted the stories that I could earn between 10-20 points, depending on how well recieved the stories were. I also know that with my total score, I recieved at least one Excellent, and that the most likely scores on the others were Good, to explain how I earned the point total I recieved. So that's good news. The bad news is that I'm really starting to understand why people object to not knowing the point breakdowns. I know that I did very well on one story, but not which one, so I have no idea which styles worked well for others, and which did not. I mean, I can say that I felt happiest about how one story worked out, and I thought that another story was weaker than the others, but that's mainly influenced by the fact that I don't feel comfortable writing 'ship in general, and has nothing to do, objectively, with the story's merits. Argh, I just really wish the prophet editors were allowed to leave point breakdowns or concrit.
By the way, given that rant I just worked through, if there's ever anything you want to point out, positive or negative, about one of my stories, do so with my blessing. I've got a strong enough hide to take a good bit of constructive criticism, and I'm aware that I'm still learning how to write good stories.
And that reminds me, I still have to put up the next bit of my other Doctor Who story.
ljmckay is probably wondering what happened to it, after she got the edits back to me so fast.