Sunday, August 17, 2003Ok, so *that* wasn't a good idea.
Last night, I'm making up pages and posting my revies on this site, and I thought, "Cool, why don't I post some of the ones of books I really like on Epinions.com? I've belonged there a long time! It'll be fun!" Of course, my member name was different from my real name...
And so a bunch of them are now rated unhelpful because despite all beleife, people recognized them. I know people do read them, but never have thought that people would have read them *and* remembered them. I'm thinking I maybe won't bother adding any more on. I liked the idea of having feedback...but, well, it just doesn't feel worth it. Besides, I did get some feedback from someone who basically said I don't write enough, that the quality of my reviews would improve if I wrote fewer and spent more time on the reviews, and now I feel like all my reviews must be crap. I guess I'm just not ready for prime time. It's stupid....because I wasn't looking for "You're amazing!" feedback. I guess I was looking for "Didn't you just love this part...?" (As an aside, I can take rejections perfectly well. If you don't like something you don't like it. OK. I can move on. I don't know why I'm all goofy on this review thing. I guess I'm just weird. Overly sensitive. Psychotic. I don't know. I do feel defensive, which is not really healthy in this profession. I wanted to say that when I wrote the review, I wrote all I thought of to write. That I write a lot of reviews because I love to read and I'm getting to read things I wouldn't get to otherwise...and so yes, perhaps I don't go over each book as thoroughly as I might because I don't want to repeat too much from review to review (there's only so many times you can exposit on charcater and setting and plot...you sort of do that in each review, but you can only say so many things on each, so you end up spending much more time on the special things.) ...instead I pick out a few outstanding qualities, exposit on them, then finish up...my whole idea is to give the reader an idea if this is something that they want to bother looking into reading. But then, that would prove her point, wouldn't it?)
I shouldn't post this. But I will. I can always delete it.
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