I'm trying to find an easier way for me to recap shows. I watch a lot of crap on WWE 24/7, yet only get around to reviewing maybe one show a month. Typically, when I sit down to reviewing, I scribble notes of who's in control, followed by what moves they hit in that period and any pinfall attempts.

It begins to wear me out after one match. So are the details really necessary? I want to fluff up each match, so I'd feel like I'm ripping off the audience by simply saying: "Bundy dominates the match with a backbreaker and clubbering. The Samoan tries to come back, but Bundy squashes him in the corner. Big splash and Bundy scores the 3". Is three sentences for a match enough?

The host segments and interviews are easier for me, because I can remember them more easily and I just write down maybe one cool quote.

How do you guys do it? All from memory? Use notes? Do you type as you watch? Rip off the details from someone else's review?!!

95% of my reviews are me typing as I watch the actual show. I do this out of laziness because it takes the least amount of time, and I also like the end products (most of the time). When I reread them, I relive the match, so I'm not sure how fond others are of this tactic, but I enjoy doing it and since no one is paying me, I don't see any reason to change.

I've done two or three ROH reviews where I watch the show with a pen and notebook and take notes throughout the show. This really wears me down, as I sit through a 3-4 hour show, and then I need another hour to type it all up. The pro is that the reviews I've done with this tactic are some of my absolute favorites, but it is just too much work to put into something that only a handful of people actually read.

I stopped the play by play thing (not that I've been churning out any reviews). I was just never very good at it and found it quite tedious. I prefer to do sort of an Apter article about each match then give resultsts, ratings, or whatever. It seems to give me more of a continuos flow over an entire article, and it's a little different than what all the other net reviewers do.