abctales.com

****On The Write Site For Inspiration**** This is one review that I've been longing to do for ages, but was put off by the other reviews, some good and some rather off-putting. It's never easy following a crowned review either, but time has passed since then and the site has undergone some changes, so I thought it time I added my own opinion. From the site title and previous reviews, it's obvious that this is a site for people who like to either write stories, poems etc, or those who take pleasure in reading them. At the time of writing this there are currently 32 members on the site and 145 guests, this goes to show that the site is even more popular than ...  Read the complete review

***Introduction*** Have you ever wanted to write and publish you own creative work? I know that many writers on sites like Dooyoo are just that – writers. After all, Dooyoo, Ciao and the like are meant to more report-based consumer opinions designed to help consumers make an informed choice about products and services. However, there are sites that you can use as an outlet for more creative stuff. One such site is ABC.Tales.com. ***Background*** ABC Tales has been around for some time now. In fact, it was launched in September 2000 by John Bird (The Big Issue founder), Gordon Roddick (The Body Shop co-founder and Tony Cook (Chairman of Red Pepper and ...  Read the complete review

Some time ago, quite by accident, I ran across a wonderful site on the internet called abctales.com. The site is the brainchild of John Bird, the co-founder of Big Issue, and Gordon Roddick who has also been involved in Big Issue. The site is primarily an online story archive. As a member you can publish your stories, read other people's stories, enter discussions and competitions. The reason it’s called ABCtales is that each member creates an “ABC” set in which to post their stories and can then submit one story for each letter of the alphabet. You can create as many sets as you like, I personally have 3 sets called ...  Read the complete review

I hate to disagree with Scotgirl but I really don’t think ABCtales is particularly great for either readers or writers. It is a nice idea but in its present format it is far too restricting. Compared to dooyoo ABCtales is quite a small community in April it had 1794 registered members with only 543 of them submitting work. It has probably grown since but it is doubtful that it will ever attract the same numbers as dooyoo. It caters for every kind of writer but is probably more suited to the ‘creative’ writer. As I write there are 4300 poems and 2500 ‘stories’ on the site’. However, the ‘story’ gallery also includes ...  Read the complete review

Y'know, there are many really great writers here on dooyoo. In saying that I do not mean people like me who are capable of knocking up a half-decent dooyoo opinion - I'm talking about people who can *really* write. I'm never one to blow my own trumpet, but to be honest dooyoo is perfect for me. I am a factual writer. I look at something, anything, and write down what I think of it. Even in reading books I much prefer non-fiction, stuff like biographies and true stories. My favourite TV programmes are boring old documentaries and such like. I suppose I am just one of those people who prefers real-life to fiction, and that seems to have worked out OK for me ...  Read the complete review