For the second time since joining the Arlington Writers Group back at the end of August 2010, a story of mine was critiqued during the group last night. The story I submitted for critique was a science fiction mystery that I like quite a bit, but that has been rejected just about everywhere I sent…
We had an interesting discussion this week in the Arlington Writers Group about giving useful critiques. As in any group, you have people with different levels of writing experience and that can–intentionally or not–influence the critiques given to certain pieces. I’d passed along this great link on Critique Group Etiquette by Madeleine E. Robins because I…
After an incredibly busy and fragmented day at work, I finished the last of my critiques for the writing group this evening. Now I can get back to working on my own stuff. I’m plugging away at the outline for NextLife but I am also tempted to do some work on “If By Reason of…
I ended up doing a second workshop story critique last night instead of working on my own writing because I felt I needed to get it out of the way. I still have one more to do before Sunday when the group meets. As it turns out, I wrote a total of about 3,600 words…
I submitted my first critique for a story in the Critter’s writing workshop this evening. Critiques are due by Wednesday so I got mine in just under the wire. I think I did a pretty good job overall. For a critique to count for credit, it has to be at least 200 words. Documentaion says…