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Within Reading Excuses, currently we just use the forums for discussion on each submission, which has been working literally for year. However, I’ve been busy the past five weeks trying out a new format that I think could be beneficial to the entire group of writers on 17th Shard. I talked with Silk, she knew it'd been kicked around before, but thought it could be worth revisiting. So, to give some perspective on the concept, during the Write About Dragons writing group as we work through the entire lecture series by Brandon Sanderson. We’ve been using Google Drive to upload and comment on our work. So far it’s been a huge success because we’re all able to lay out what we like in the specific areas that matter as we see them. This has added a lot of value to the critiquing process. For more info on the success, touch base with Robinski too, he's been a heavy part of the system (among others, but I don't want to speak for them). Anyway, I’d be willing to get the system into place with you and provide the admin team all the information they would need to monitor it or I could also help with the process and oversee it. Here’s what the process looks like: Standard Layout Uploading/Creating New Document Label (Used RE Formatting) Commenting & Critiquing Then we could follow up with overall comments on the forum, like we do right now. Each writer could then download their documents with the comments, adding a lot of value to the virtual critique process. What do you think, could this work for Reading Excuses?