Member Story Review – November 2024

On the second Tuesday of each month, we choose one member’s story for review by the Life Writers community.

Tonight, we discussed Linda Peterson’s delightful story, “The Amazing Maizey.”

View the story notes for this session here. One of my goals for these story notes is for you to use this information to create a personal editing checklist. Complete this fillable editing checklist of edits specific to you and your work.

The Member Story Review is a great way to improve your writing and editing skills and learn how to give constructive feedback to your fellow members.

Take advantage of this great opportunity and upload your story here for review in a future Member Story Review session.

00:00:13 - Dashboard to Member Story Review to November Story Review

00:01:01 - Story notes here to help you create your own editing checklist

00:01:47 - What's not on the list--one space, not two, between sentences

00:02:16 - Paragraph openings

00:02:50 - Quantify your description

00:03:23 - Use a comma after an introductory clause or phrase

00:04:29 - Italicize a word when it's used as a word

00:05:18 - Be careful staring a paragraph with a pronoun

00:05:51 - "Then" is not a conjunction

00:07:00 - A list of adverbial phrases--not really

00:08:21 - Linda Peterson reads the opening of "The Amazing Maisey"

00:09:14 - What was the story about?

00:11:14 - What did she do well?

00:15:12 - What can the writer do to improve the piece?

00:23:04 - Rearrange sentences for impact

00:23:50 - Resolving all questions raised

00:24:49 - Showing emotions rather than stating them

00:25:51 - Starting a sentence with a pronoun

00:26:40 - Lowercase "farmers market" if it's not a proper noun

00:27:08 - Define "a tractor ride"

00:27:26 - Show and/or include feelings about "Maizey"

00:28:25 - Congratulations on a job well done, Linda!

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