06-24-2018, 08:01 AM
Welcome to the Omniverse Book Club! Here, we put up a new completed topic every fortnight to read and review. By participating you'll earn a bonus 300 OM (subject to change) and you'll be able to suggest a topic of your own for the next fortnight. Aside from the helpful feedback, subjects of the book club will receive a Great or Exemplary bonus for their storyline if they qualify. :omni:
OOC Rules of Conduct apply.
We encourage helpful, well-considered feedback with both positive and negative comments. Try to remember that not everyone is confident about their writing, and negative feedback can be highly discouraging.
Reviews must be a minimum of 150 words and should include your opinion on whether the participating member(s) deserve a bonus or not, and if yes, then 'Great' or 'Exemplary', according to the Bonus Rewards Guidelines. Please don't consider this an arbitrary number to fill; this just filters out those reviews that were clearly made with no effort.
Topics may include writing from multiple members. Please try to give everyone included a decent review and individual grade.
Try to go into detail about what you liked and didn't like about an RP. Try to keep it objective and positive: it's absolutely not okay to just tear down someone else's work without saying anything good about it. The more detail the better, and the more effort you put into your reviews the more likely we are to choose one of your topics to review, as thanks for your help to other members.
Please do not skim. If we suspect people are skimming topics, we may have to be more stringent on requirements, which makes it harder on staff to enforce, and more difficult for you to write your review. If we suspect particular members are skimming, we may bar them from future participation in the book club. This is free OM, so it's in everyone's best interest to keep it that way.
As far as grading goes, please be non-partisan. If you think your friend's topic truly merits Exemplary, awesome. But if we notice people constantly doing this and we consistently disagree with the gradings, we'll weigh your opinion far less than those who tend to give accurate gradings consistent with the Bonus Rewards Guidelines.
Book Club rewards will be awarded at the end of each fortnight, although it might take a while to get updated. Until you see a post in this topic saying "It was updated", it's safe to say you weren't missed or forgotten; we just haven't gotten around to it yet. No need to remind us.
We will give the reward to the account you posted on, unless you request otherwise.
Those trying to become judges should note that Book Club reviews do count towards your total.
Book Club threads will run for two weeks. They will end on Sunday AEST roughly around 10:00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time), which is 12:00pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Sunday Afternoon.
And finally ....
More Coruscant shenanigans? Who DOESN'T love those? I welcome Kuzuru - as various NPCs - to the stage! Two Idiots And a Deathwish
No Word count, thread already received bonuses.
RULES
OOC Rules of Conduct apply.
We encourage helpful, well-considered feedback with both positive and negative comments. Try to remember that not everyone is confident about their writing, and negative feedback can be highly discouraging.
Review Writing Guidelines
Reviews must be a minimum of 150 words and should include your opinion on whether the participating member(s) deserve a bonus or not, and if yes, then 'Great' or 'Exemplary', according to the Bonus Rewards Guidelines. Please don't consider this an arbitrary number to fill; this just filters out those reviews that were clearly made with no effort.
Topics may include writing from multiple members. Please try to give everyone included a decent review and individual grade.
Try to go into detail about what you liked and didn't like about an RP. Try to keep it objective and positive: it's absolutely not okay to just tear down someone else's work without saying anything good about it. The more detail the better, and the more effort you put into your reviews the more likely we are to choose one of your topics to review, as thanks for your help to other members.
Please do not skim. If we suspect people are skimming topics, we may have to be more stringent on requirements, which makes it harder on staff to enforce, and more difficult for you to write your review. If we suspect particular members are skimming, we may bar them from future participation in the book club. This is free OM, so it's in everyone's best interest to keep it that way.
As far as grading goes, please be non-partisan. If you think your friend's topic truly merits Exemplary, awesome. But if we notice people constantly doing this and we consistently disagree with the gradings, we'll weigh your opinion far less than those who tend to give accurate gradings consistent with the Bonus Rewards Guidelines.
REWARDS
Book Club rewards will be awarded at the end of each fortnight, although it might take a while to get updated. Until you see a post in this topic saying "It was updated", it's safe to say you weren't missed or forgotten; we just haven't gotten around to it yet. No need to remind us.
We will give the reward to the account you posted on, unless you request otherwise.
Those trying to become judges should note that Book Club reviews do count towards your total.
Book Club threads will run for two weeks. They will end on Sunday AEST roughly around 10:00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time), which is 12:00pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Sunday Afternoon.
Submissions
If you are submitting a thread for the Book Club review/grading please use this form after your review of the current thread. You're welcome, and encouraged to submit any completed topics or multi-topic storylines of your own that have yet to be graded and exceed 4000 words.
Code:
[url=http://omniverse-rpg.com/showthread.php?tid=0]Link to topic - name[/url]
Total character count including spaces (excluding bbcode, images, etcetera), please make sure this is per character, not as a whole:
Total word count (excluding bbcode, images, etcetera) please make sure this is per character, not as a whole:
Quest or Personal Storyline?
Participating characters (please list):And finally ....
THIS FORTNIGHT'S STORY
More Coruscant shenanigans? Who DOESN'T love those? I welcome Kuzuru - as various NPCs - to the stage! Two Idiots And a Deathwish
No Word count, thread already received bonuses.