Critique groups are indeed a valuable way to gain individual insights on your writing and identify patterns; what works (and what doesn't). Where critique groups benefit you enormously, however, is also in giving writing feedback. Troubleshooting others' stories provides an excellent way to ...
Submitting your work to a critique group allows you to see it through the eyes of others. A story offered for critique must stand on its own. When you’re reading your own work, you can’t help being aware of the background: your intentions, the origins of the premise, the characters...
If you’re giving a critique, whether in a writer’s group, a workshop, online, or with a friend, you should take the time to really read a piece before you construct your feedback. Read every line carefully and make notes, mark it up as you go, and then jot down your thoughts w...
Mel has been a member of writing groups for over seven years and has critiqued short stories, novellas, novels, scripts and non-fiction. You can learn more about Mel on the main Meet The Team page. *** Second, the gents. Allen Ashley Allen is an award winning editor and a prize ...
I think all writers are victims of other writers’ success. When we read a great novel, we are not reviewing the original draft. We only read published works that have been revised, critiqued, edited and re-written. OF COURSE the story sounds better in my head than on paper! Did I re...
2) Apply the theory/concept/definition to a new case in order to critique the theory/concept/definition;3) Apply the theory/concept/definition to a new case in order to solve some puzzle about the case (this is what a tremendous number of scholarly articles do).So, I might assign a ...
After going on about various things and people he disagreed with in his critique, he stopped, deflated, and said, “This is mostly nonfiction. I don’t know if you’ve realized that.” I nodded. “I think most of the class did.” ...
Yet, when I go to conferences and agree to critique the first few pages of a manuscript, a solid double-digit percentage of the submissions are prologues, and they fall into two broad categories: the teaser and the backstory dump. The teaser prologue typically presents a character in crisis ...
AS: My books are all self-published, which is far easier to do now than it was in 2008, so I would suggest considering that approach as it is far quicker and easier than acquiring an agent or publisher. By all means join a good critique group where you can get constructive criticism ...
Critique Criteria for Writer Groups By EditorAdmin, December 1, 2024 Art and Life in Novel Writing Classic and valuable archive. Misc pearls of utility plus takeaways on craft learned from books utilized in the AAC novel writing program including "Write Away" by Elizabeth George and "The Ar...