My first destination whenever I log onto Mythic Scribes is the Showcase Forum. I don't see a lot of people commenting in that forum. So the question has to be asked: Why don't you visit the Showcase Forum?
I don't post my work in the showcase because I never have anything ready for posting. I don't really drift into the showcase that much partly because I don't consider my critique to be all that reliable, but if needed I would be happy to.
Or (at the risk of sounding like an ass) the writing is not of a sufficient quality to merit in-depth critiquing, and posting "You need to practice for a couple more years" doesn't help anybody.
Perhaps it would help to have some critique guidelines posted as a sticky thread. Or even a subforum specifically giving advice on how to critique - something like this How To Write Critiques? (only recently discovered this site and haven't joined up though - they seem really tough). Basically, something to help those of us new to critiquing, or maybe don't have much experience of it.
Me too. And I don't really think that translating parts of my work is very useful. I did it once at the beginning of my time here, but I don't think this really helps me much because my language skills are (hopefully) a good deal better in my origianl language.For me the reason why I have no stories in the showcase is simple: I do not write in English. Most of you could probably not make much of a German text.
I don't think we should go about imposing too many rigid guidelines, we don't want to make the critiquers (especially me) too uncomfortable about what we're writing.