I'm sorry, I just hate it when people post their first 13 and then, after recieveing a single response, go and make changes to the original post. Upon getting a second feedback, they re-edit and make more changes, obliterating anything that might have remained from the original posted first-13 and, often, making the previous feedback irrelevant and useless to anyone who didn't read it while the original first 13 was posted.

That feedback isn't just for the thread starter, its something everyone who reads it gets to learn from. If a poster changes their thread starting post, they lose something for all the rest of us.

If you post your first 13, never, ever make any changes to that post. Ideally, you should wait a few days to gather feedback and then rewrite it, and possibly, repost it to a new thread or work on the rest of the story along the same lines as the feedback you recieved. If you absolutely have to make immediate changes, post it as a response so we can all benefit from the process.

Don't just ignore the person.

On two occasions when I've posted a fragment six people requested the full story in both incidences. And in both cases only two people got back to me.

Ditto to Elan, except that my peeve is folks who have read the rule about 13, but deliberately ignore it and say something like, "I know it's over 13, but it wouldn't make any sense otherwise." or "I wanted to give more than 13 because it's so good." Give me a break.

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Another peeve of mine is people who leave feedback and then never return to that thread again. What if the author had questions about the feedback or needed clarification? Those types of critiques are like hit-and-runs.

The coke was all served warm though.

In defense of those who have done this, though, I will say that when changes have been made, or when you post a revision, or when you have a follow-up question you wish to ask, people tend not to read far enough down the thread to see these things. (What a HORRIBLE sentence...but I'm not going to edit it.) Yes, theoretically F&F is for posting 13 lines and getting feedback, which should probably be revised separately and not reposted, but from time to time I've had questions about titles, synopsis sentences, and etc. that I've worked through on F&F with great success. In these cases, I often want people to look at my new ideas and ignore the old ones.

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(I do wish people would at least skim the whole thread, though...didn't I post something about this a month or so ago?)

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*nods head*

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You could also use Firefox and open the reply page in a new tab.
~Keith (always advocating for the abolition of Internet Exploiter)

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Or, if you use Internet Explorer, you could just as easily open a new window (File->New->Window or just hit Ctrl-N) and then you have the added benefit of seeing them side by side or jumping back and forth between them without clicking (just hit Alt-Tab to go back and forth).

The scroll bar that will let you see the box showing the topic with all the posts in it is at the side of your browser, and it shouldn't be grayed out.

If you go to the right side of your screen and move that scroll bar to the bottom, you will see the "submit reply" and "clear fields" buttons under the reply dialog box.

This whole typing thing and retyping is way to much like work!!!