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Put in a couple of hours finishing the critique I was working on. Now my 'reader' is checking my comments to make certain that I don't come off as too harsh.

I've never gotten the knack of adding smileys and that kind of thing to make the sentence "in my opinion, this might work better if you..." sound less harsh to some people. I did have one person get...annoyed...with me because I told her 'pilgrimaging' wasn't a word, and ever since then, I've been a bit paranoid about how I say things.

Turns out, 'pilgrimaging' IS a word in some dictionaries, just not my Encarta. I did apologize, but I evidently made her angry by saying she shouldn't use it. She didn't give me credit for my critique of a 70K novel. Oh, well, live and learn.

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I wondered if pilgrimaging might be a word used by gamers, since this writer associates with them. Still, in the three different passages where I read it, it made me think the writer didn't know how to use the word.

That is the hard part, I think. When you go into a critique, you're actually looking for the things that are wrong, not the things that are right. The things that are right don't make you stop in your reading.

When you go in looking for the bad spots, you often forget to hunt for the good ones as well.

(Just ran spell check, and it told me pilgrimaging wasn't a word.....)