Instructions
: Enter the amount of points you give the category next to the given spot, then write your thoughts of their use (or lack) of that element. Since your thoughts are more helpful to the author than a number score please write at least two sentences under each category even for those categories that you have scored high. If you do not have at least two sentences of comments I will send the evaluation back to you and ask you to expand on your thoughts. I do not expect you to have paragraph after paragraph for each element, but please have more than, "yes it does" or other one phrase comments. I have placed some questions beside each category to help those that might not know what to say. Do not limit yourself just answering those questions.**********
Story Number: 1
Story Title: Pop Rocks
Judges Name/Number:
(If you enter your name here it will be included when sent to the writer, if you wish to remain anonymous do not enter anything and I will put your judge's number in the spot.)
Title & Story Description:
(10 pts) Does this title grab your attention? Does it fit the story? Would you read this story based on the description? After reading the story go back and read the description, is the description true to the story or is it misleading?Points:
Thoughts:
Setting:
(10 pts) Does the author use the five senses to set the scenes? Where you clear on the place, time, and mood of the story?Points:
Thoughts:
Plot:
(10 pts) Is there a story line or a sequence of events? Did the author follow through with the story line they started?Points:
Thoughts:
Characterization:
(10 pts) Do the characters come alive or are they flat stale people? Did you get to know the inside of the characters as well as the outsides?Points:
Thoughts:
Dialogue:
(10 pts) Does the dialogue between the characters flow? Does it sound realistic, fake, or forced? Did the author use enough 'tags' to help you follow who is speaking?Points:
Thoughts:
Sex scene(s) / Sex scene(s) dialogue:
(10 pts) Were the scenes arousing, realistic, and easy to follow? Did you have a clear picture of what was happening? Does the dialogue during the scenes sound realistic, fake, or forced?Points:
Thoughts:
Original section:
(10 pts) Did the author not only include the original section, but also incorporate it into the story? Did they answer any/all of the implied questions in the original section?Points:
Thoughts:
Originality / Creativeness:
(10 pts) Was this your everyday type of story or a theme/idea you don't see often?Points:
Thoughts:
Technical Protion
: (10 pts) Were there any or a lot of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors? Does the story flow from beginning to end or was it choppy? Is the writing clean and easy to understand?Points:
Thoughts:
Overall impression:
(10 pts) After completing the story what is your overall opinion.Points:
Thoughts:
Points totaled:
(**The total of the 10 categories is 100 pts.**)
Please also comment on these for the author's benefits:
Beginning:
Did you feel the opening paragraphs grab the reader's attention? Did they make you want to read more?Thoughts:
Ending:
Were you satisfied with the ending or left wanting answers to clear up things?Thoughts:
Confusing or odd parts:
Were there any parts that just did not make sense to you or did not fit into the story?Thoughts:
Author's question:
(Each author is asked to send in a question specific to their story or something that is not above that they would like answered.)1. I intended this story to be kind of like a monthly diary of events in the main characters lives, showing a full year. Did the month by month breaks get annoying, especially with the song lyrics? Or did the lyrics work well with each event?
Thoughts:
2. I kept the story in Rudy's point of view because the given section was the same way. Could the story benefit from having a bit on insight into Nina's head?
Thoughts:
Judges thoughts:
Please place any other comments, thoughts or ideas that you would like to share with the author of this story here.Thoughts:
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Instructions
: Enter the amount of points you give the category next to the given spot, then write your thoughts of their use (or lack) of that element. Since your thoughts are more helpful to the author than a number score please write at least two sentences under each category even for those categories that you have scored high. If you do not have at least two sentences of comments I will send the evaluation back to you and ask you to expand on your thoughts. I do not expect you to have paragraph after paragraph for each element, but please have more than, "yes it does" or other one phrase comments. I have placed some questions beside each category to help those that might not know what to say. Do not limit yourself just answering those questions.**********
Story Number: 2
Story Title: A stranger in his bed
Judges Name/Number:
(If you enter your name here it will be included when sent to the writer, if you wish to remain anonymous do not enter anything and I will put your judge's number in the spot.)
Title & Story Description:
(10 pts) Does this title grab your attention? Does it fit the story? Would you read this story based on the description? After reading the story go back and read the description, is the description true to the story or is it misleading?Points:
Thoughts:
Setting:
(10 pts) Does the author use the five senses to set the scenes? Where you clear on the place, time, and mood of the story?Points:
Thoughts:
Plot:
(10 pts) Is there a story line or a sequence of events? Did the author follow through with the story line they started?Points:
Thoughts:
Characterization:
(10 pts) Do the characters come alive or are they flat stale people? Did you get to know the inside of the characters as well as the outsides?Points:
Thoughts:
Dialogue:
(10 pts) Does the dialogue between the characters flow? Does it sound realistic, fake, or forced? Did the author use enough 'tags' to help you follow who is speaking?Points:
Thoughts:
Sex scene(s) / Sex scene(s) dialogue:
(10 pts) Were the scenes arousing, realistic, and easy to follow? Did you have a clear picture of what was happening? Does the dialogue during the scenes sound realistic, fake, or forced?Points:
Thoughts:
Original section:
(10 pts) Did the author not only include the original section, but also incorporate it into the story? Did they answer any/all of the implied questions in the original section?Points:
Thoughts:
Originality / Creativeness:
(10 pts) Was this your everyday type of story or a theme/idea you don't see often?Points:
Thoughts:
Technical Protion
: (10 pts) Were there any or a lot of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors? Does the story flow from beginning to end or was it choppy? Is the writing clean and easy to understand?Points:
Thoughts:
Overall impression:
(10 pts) After completing the story what is your overall opinion.Points:
Thoughts:
Points totaled:
(**The total of the 10 categories is 100 pts.**)
Please also comment on these for the author's benefits:
Beginning:
Did you feel the opening paragraphs grab the reader's attention? Did they make you want to read more?Thoughts:
Ending:
Were you satisfied with the ending or left wanting answers to clear up things?Thoughts:
Confusing or odd parts:
Were there any parts that just did not make sense to you or did not fit into the story?Thoughts:
Author's question:
(Each author is asked to send in a question specific to their story or something that is not above that they would like answered.)1. My question is one I always ask myself as I write; Does this story "take" the reader into the minds of the characters, failing that, does it take the reader into the story, allowing them to feel what my characters feel?
Thoughts:
2. Are there any parts in my story that could be improved on?
Thoughts:
Judges thoughts:
Please place any other comments, thoughts or ideas that you would like to share with the author of this story here.Thoughts:
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Instructions
: Enter the amount of points you give the category next to the given spot, then write your thoughts of their use (or lack) of that element. Since your thoughts are more helpful to the author than a number score please write at least two sentences under each category even for those categories that you have scored high. If you do not have at least two sentences of comments I will send the evaluation back to you and ask you to expand on your thoughts. I do not expect you to have paragraph after paragraph for each element, but please have more than, "yes it does" or other one phrase comments. I have placed some questions beside each category to help those that might not know what to say. Do not limit yourself just answering those questions.**********
Story Number: 3
Story Title: Better to Sleep With a Drunken Engineer Than a Sober Manager
Judges Name/Number:
(If you enter your name here it will be included when sent to the writer, if you wish to remain anonymous do not enter anything and I will put your judge's number in the spot.)
Title & Story Description:
(10 pts) Does this title grab your attention? Does it fit the story? Would you read this story based on the description? After reading the story go back and read the description, is the description true to the story or is it misleading?Points:
Thoughts:
Setting:
(10 pts) Does the author use the five senses to set the scenes? Where you clear on the place, time, and mood of the story?Points:
Thoughts:
Plot:
(10 pts) Is there a story line or a sequence of events? Did the author follow through with the story line they started?Points:
Thoughts:
Characterization:
(10 pts) Do the characters come alive or are they flat stale people? Did you get to know the inside of the characters as well as the outsides?Points:
Thoughts:
Dialogue:
(10 pts) Does the dialogue between the characters flow? Does it sound realistic, fake, or forced? Did the author use enough 'tags' to help you follow who is speaking?Points:
Thoughts:
Sex scene(s) / Sex scene(s) dialogue:
(10 pts) Were the scenes arousing, realistic, and easy to follow? Did you have a clear picture of what was happening? Does the dialogue during the scenes sound realistic, fake, or forced?Points:
Thoughts:
Original section:
(10 pts) Did the author not only include the original section, but also incorporate it into the story? Did they answer any/all of the implied questions in the original section?Points:
Thoughts:
Originality / Creativeness:
(10 pts) Was this your everyday type of story or a theme/idea you don't see often?Points:
Thoughts:
Technical Protion
: (10 pts) Were there any or a lot of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors? Does the story flow from beginning to end or was it choppy? Is the writing clean and easy to understand?Points:
Thoughts:
Overall impression:
(10 pts) After completing the story what is your overall opinion.Points:
Thoughts:
Points totaled:
(**The total of the 10 categories is 100 pts.**)
Please also comment on these for the author's benefits:
Beginning:
Did you feel the opening paragraphs grab the reader's attention? Did they make you want to read more?Thoughts:
Ending:
Were you satisfied with the ending or left wanting answers to clear up things?Thoughts:
Confusing or odd parts:
Were there any parts that just did not make sense to you or did not fit into the story?Thoughts:
Author's question:
(Each author is asked to send in a question specific to their story or something that is not above that they would like answered.)1. Was it predictable, or were you surprised or kept in suspense by anything? Did you like that? If there were any surprises, were they, in hindsight, properly foreshadowed? Please be as specific as you have time for.
Thoughts:
2. I’ve always wished I could ask readers if I succeeded in implying the answers to questions I carefully didn’t answer explicitly in a story. For this story, some of those questions are:
a. What really prompted Hunksaker to leave the astronaut corps?
b. Why was his lawyer sure he couldn’t get win?
Thoughts:C. List a few places where one character misinterpreted the actions (or reactions) of another.
Thoughts:d. What’s the second thing Rudy likes about button-down shirts?
Thoughts:
3. It would be helpful if you could pick one or two pairs of characters and summarize what they think of each other, and which parts of the story conveyed that for you.
Thoughts:
Judges thoughts:
Please place any other comments, thoughts or ideas that you would like to share with the author of this story here.Thoughts:
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Instructions
: Enter the amount of points you give the category next to the given spot, then write your thoughts of their use (or lack) of that element. Since your thoughts are more helpful to the author than a number score please write at least two sentences under each category even for those categories that you have scored high. If you do not have at least two sentences of comments I will send the evaluation back to you and ask you to expand on your thoughts. I do not expect you to have paragraph after paragraph for each element, but please have more than, "yes it does" or other one phrase comments. I have placed some questions beside each category to help those that might not know what to say. Do not limit yourself just answering those questions.**********
Story Number: 4
Story Title: Rudy Wins The Grand Prize
Judges Name/Number:
(If you enter your name here it will be included when sent to the writer, if you wish to remain anonymous do not enter anything and I will put your judge's number in the spot.)
Title & Story Description:
(10 pts) Does this title grab your attention? Does it fit the story? Would you read this story based on the description? After reading the story go back and read the description, is the description true to the story or is it misleading?Points:
Thoughts:
Setting:
(10 pts) Does the author use the five senses to set the scenes? Where you clear on the place, time, and mood of the story?Points:
Thoughts:
Plot:
(10 pts) Is there a story line or a sequence of events? Did the author follow through with the story line they started?Points:
Thoughts:
Characterization:
(10 pts) Do the characters come alive or are they flat stale people? Did you get to know the inside of the characters as well as the outsides?Points:
Thoughts:
Dialogue:
(10 pts) Does the dialogue between the characters flow? Does it sound realistic, fake, or forced? Did the author use enough 'tags' to help you follow who is speaking?Points:
Thoughts:
Sex scene(s) / Sex scene(s) dialogue:
(10 pts) Were the scenes arousing, realistic, and easy to follow? Did you have a clear picture of what was happening? Does the dialogue during the scenes sound realistic, fake, or forced?Points:
Thoughts:
Original section:
(10 pts) Did the author not only include the original section, but also incorporate it into the story? Did they answer any/all of the implied questions in the original section?Points:
Thoughts:
Originality / Creativeness:
(10 pts) Was this your everyday type of story or a theme/idea you don't see often?Points:
Thoughts:
Technical Protion
: (10 pts) Were there any or a lot of spelling, grammar and punctuation errors? Does the story flow from beginning to end or was it choppy? Is the writing clean and easy to understand?Points:
Thoughts:
Overall impression:
(10 pts) After completing the story what is your overall opinion.Points:
Thoughts:
Points totaled:
(**The total of the 10 categories is 100 pts.**)
Please also comment on these for the author's benefits:
Beginning:
Did you feel the opening paragraphs grab the reader's attention? Did they make you want to read more?Thoughts:
Ending:
Were you satisfied with the ending or left wanting answers to clear up things?Thoughts:
Confusing or odd parts:
Were there any parts that just did not make sense to you or did not fit into the story?Thoughts:
Author's question:
(Each author is asked to send in a question specific to their story or something that is not above that they would like answered.)1) Have I brought in all of the senses for the readers use in feeling the story? (sight touch smell taste sound)
Thoughts:
2) Are my minimilast descriptions of Rudy and Nancy adequate, and do you think they could be reduced?
Thoughts:
Judges thoughts:
Please place any other comments, thoughts or ideas that you would like to share with the author of this story here.Thoughts:
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