{"id":174,"date":"2007-09-16T21:40:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T04:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2007\/09\/16\/evaluating-fiction-vs-evaluating-libation\/"},"modified":"2007-09-16T21:40:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T04:40:30","slug":"evaluating-fiction-vs-evaluating-libation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2007\/09\/evaluating-fiction-vs-evaluating-libation\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating fiction vs. evaluating libation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Copious Free Time(tm) has been filled lately by two different evaluation projects. One is the <a href=\"http:\/\/writingshow.com\/?page_id=250\">2nd Annual Writing Show Best First Chapter of a Novel Contest<\/a>, for which the first round of judging is just winding up. The main benefit for contest entrants is that every submission gets a professional critique of at least 750 words. But additionally, each submisison gets a score on a 50-point scale, based on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 points for Story. Is it a compelling read with a great hook? Are we engaged?<\/li>\n<li>10 points for Style. Is the writing smooth and tight, without awkward constructions, extraneous verbiage, and redundancies?<\/li>\n<li>10 points for Dialog. Is the dialog natural and does it move the story along?<\/li>\n<li>10 points for Character. Are the characters interesting? Do we care about them?<\/li>\n<li>10 points for Mechanics. Are grammar, spelling, and punctuation correct?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m also attending some classes aiming toward becoming a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjcp.org\">Certified Beer Judge<\/a> (details on <a title=\"Meadblog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.360.yahoo.com\/mdubinko\">Meadblog<\/a>). This isn&#8217;t as fun as it sounds. (Well, OK, maybe it is&#8230;). The idea is to build up better sensory perception so that my personal brewing and cooking projects can benefit. But the upcoming test is 70% written essay questions like &#8220;Identify three distinctly different top-fermenting beer styles with a starting gravity of 1.070 or higher, and describe the similarities and differences between the styles&#8221;. 30% of the test is based on actual tasting and filling out a tasting sheet. Of interest, the scoring here is also based on a 50-point scale:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 points for Aroma.<\/li>\n<li>3 points for Appearance.<\/li>\n<li>20 points for Taste.<\/li>\n<li>5 points for Mouthfeel.<\/li>\n<li>10 points for Overall Impression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The interesting part is that there&#8217;s similarities between the two tasks. For both, I need to work off of physical paper, not in my head on on a computer screen. For both, I first &#8220;skim&#8221;, building an overall impression, then dig down into individual categories to assign a score for each one. 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