This comment, here! 💯I do spend a good few days each week researching around the topic at hand and mulling over ideas in my head, playing with scenarios, storylines etc BEFORE I hit "create post". Then I draft it all out and revisit it a few times to edit, refine etc before finally submitting it. Complete respect to the WOTW admins and reviewers. It can't be an easy task and it must take a lot of time. If anyone wants to improve their writing, the best thing to do is to write regularly, challenge yourself and when entering WOTW, analyse your feedback from prior weeks against the merit grading system, and look at where you are falling short. I do this as there is always room for improvement and I have a long way to go. Then I check through against the grading system after I have written, to make sure I have hit the mark wherever it is possible within the constraints of my genre and perspective. I know there is an area for example that I can do more in: informative. This pops up time and again for me as a lower score and I know it's because I am primarily writing creative short stories and poetry, but I am hoping to weave more informative elements into my stories going forwards; if I feel it will detract from the perspective or creativity though, I will make do without it :-) Congrats to everyone who took the time to enter the contest and to the winners. I have been away for the long weekend in the UK since Thurday and only just arrived back home, so catching up. Keep writing everyone, I'm off to read the few WOTW entries that hadn't been posted before I left for the weekend, including the winning post which I am really excited to read! Have a great week everyone :-)
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