If you’re getting ready to send some of your creative work to InkSpark — whether it’s poetry, short stories, or something else — I thought it might be helpful to share with you how we read and think about your writing. These are some questions the InkSpark readers use to guide their thinking and the feedback they share.
- What do you think this text is about?
- Are there any special themes, messages, thoughts, or feelings that the author might be hinting at?
- What sort of language are they using? Are they choosing words and phrases that are not “easy” words?
- Is there a nice rhythm or flow to the writing? Are there too many long sentences, or short sentences? Is there a mix of different types of sentence?
- What sort of description has the writer included? Can you visualise where the text is set, or what the characters are like?
- How does the work make you feel? Does it make you feel a particular emotion, or is it inspiring you to do something or think a certain way?
- Is the writer trying something different: a new way to put words together, or a mix of genres that you haven’t seen before? And does it work?
- Is there any part that really stands out to you in a good way?
While you’re creating, you could think about these questions and use them to go back over your work and add detail, or change some “easy” words to more interesting vocabulary!
Happy writing,
Tracy
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