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101 Comment Starters

I began working on this last summer. Like many veteran fanfiction authors, I lament the decline in commenting that I’ve seen in my fandom, the Tolkien fandom. I’m also a humanities teacher, so I spend a good part of my day teaching young people how to write, and one lesson I’ve learned the hard way is that each type of writing involves unique skills that have to be learned. And commenting is a unique form of writing and one that comes with added stresses around social expectations and public performance. My research on the Tolkien fanfic community confirms this: Many people want to comment, but they simply don’t know what to say.

As a teacher of writing, I often use sentence starters or mentor sentences. The writer uses these to jumpstart their thinking and writing, until they become comfortable enough to begin working independently. “101 Comment Starters” is built around this research-based strategy of teaching writing.

Some of the comment starters are simple enough that they can be merely copied and pasted. Others require filling in some blanks or providing some elaboration. In some cases, a because can be dropped if the reader isn’t comfortable providing that level of elaboration yet. In other cases, a more experienced commenter can add the because and elaborate more on their comment.

They also differ in their level of praise. They range from simple statements of how the author made the reader feel to compliments around an aspect of the author’s writing or their work in general. I’ve tried to limit words like really, very, and so as much as possible, except when it made the comment feel wooden. You’re welcome, of course, to add those words in if you feel they more accurately help capture how a story impacted you.

If you’re just starting to comment, please keep in mind that the vast majority of authors will love to hear from you! They don’t care how long or elaborate your comment is. They don’t care if your English is perfect or if you’re a little awkward. They just want to know that you’re reading and enjoying their work.

Finally, please feel free to reblog and share and add your own comment starters!

ETA: I’m officially declaring these in the public domain. If you want to use them in something, while I won’t turn down credit, don’t let the inability to give me credit for them to stand in your way. Share them, make stuff with them, whatever you want to get the comments flowing!

101 Comment Starters

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25 date ideas for your characters + writing prompts

requested by anonymous

character blindfolds their date, leads them outside to a beautiful picnic in the garden

dancing under the stars, taking lots of photographs of each other

sleeping under the stars, roasting marshmallows, s t a r g a z i n g

going to art museums, or other museums, depending on what your characters are interested in, could be archeology, dinosaurs, the human evolution, space,,,

a standard date, dinner at a fancy restaurant, and a movie

drive-in movie date, dinner at some fast-food restaurant at 1am in the morning

playing mini golf together, or some other type of sport

going to an amusement park, sharing a kiss in the alley

going to a food truck festival, feeding each other

cooking or baking class! alternatively, cooking together at home

inviting your date to a friend’s wedding!

going into an antique book story, choosing books for each other to read, spending the day cruising around town, visiting cozy shops, resting their legs at a quiet, cozy little café, holding hands over the table

visiting old monuments, old castles, tourist attractions

breakfast dates

watching the sunset/sunrise

going for a midnight drive

do an activity that they’re both terrible at, for a good laugh

playing video games together, or board games

writing each other love letters

recreating their favorite date

build a snowman together, or have a snowball fight

going to a pumpkin patch, choosing the perfect pumpkin, decorating for halloween together, alternatively, decorating for christmas

go an escape room, or make a time capsule

visit a haunted house together