First I always read every entry posted when I create a challenge. If someone has taken the time to invest themselves into a challenge I put out there, I'll generally like it.

Otherwise, it has to have the power to make me back track and read it again. To savor the words, and say them aloud to myself as I read.

A poem requires rhythm and flow, more importantly it needs to touch my heart in some fashion.

A piece of flash fiction needs to be well thought out, and a pointed reason or underlying comment on a specific theme.

Since pieces on Prose are rarely longer than 1500 words, short stories need good character development and good dialogue, both of which drive a plot.

Those are the things I look for and enjoy.

Thanks for the question @Finder. Two things make me 'like' something -

1) When my eye experiences a sudden halt and backtracks, I know I have deeply invested in something the author was saying and want to engage with the text more fully.

2) It's a challenge I can tell the author cares about or put a certain level of effort into making it accessible for others.

Bonus: Sometimes I just like to push the like button on the stream for a while - in this instance, I usually reorder the posts and look at 'newest' instead of 'trending' ~

Happy reading!

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@bykaileyann

HEDERAREADS.COM

The posts I would like for other people to like:

https://theprose.com/book/3235/tricks-of-the-spade