Question Number Eight
“This isn’t a critiquing question, but you said you and your cps do courses. What courses do you do, and what have you found most helpful?”
This is difficult because everyone is at a different place in their journey. I can only tell you what has worked for me, and what my CPs recommend. [...]
Question Number Seven
“You have critique partners. What do you do? How did you find them? “
Honestly? What we do is have a lot of fun.
At the moment I live about an eight hour road trip away from them so we IM or Skype to keep in touch. We have our own Yahoo Group where we [...]
Question Number Six
“What do I do if someone tells me I need to make major changes to my book, characters, plot, setting…the whole thing?”
Well, it depends who is telling you. If it’s your agent or editor, then most of the time you suck it up and make the changes.
If the suggestion comes from someone in [...]
Question Number Five
“What if I don’t like the genre of the person I’m critiquing?”
What you do here really depends on your personality. If you can step away from your personal feelings and appreciate the work for what it is then there is no reason why you can’t critique in any genre. However, not all of us can [...]
Question Number Four
“If I think someone’s characters are unbelievable, what do I say? I don’t want to hurt her feelings.”
It’s a good question, and I look at it like this. Sometimes no matter how hard we try we’re not going to avoid hurt feelings–ours or another person’s. But no one wants to make a career out [...]
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