Review of Chantal Chuba’s, “The Day I Grew A Pair”

Thoroughness and Comprehension: (+)

A great example of flipping the idea of a Fuck Off Fund from something purely financial to a mindset! Setting the stage with a powerful first sentence up front was a good way to hook me into the story. Try moving that teaser into subheadline territory to pump up the quote’s importance to the story’s setting. Nice work referencing the story as a proper Medium response, which gives the reader plenty of breadcrumbs as to what they are about to read into. Other than that, I felt at place with the story while reading thanks to the use of careful pacing and really setting the space with thoughtful, descriptive language.

Stretching of creative muscles: (+)

Writing in this casual nature works well for this type of story. I really felt like I was having a conversation, which lends itself to a strong narrative. Also, great formal decision of breaking out the writing into multiple small paragraphs; very conversational.

Using the right tools for the job: (✓)

The GIF was a great chuckling point but I want a little more. A story of this style would have really shined if a great image or pop culture referencing screen-cap graced underneath headline (a la the Mad Men(?) screen-cap in “Fuck Off Fund”), again lending to the story’s conversational nature. Also nice use of tags (“Rudeness”) to act as a punctuation mark to further the story’s empathy.