How To Have Critique
Paying for validation is an expensive hobby. Do critique exchanges before considering professional editing.
Avoid overloading your personal network with unfinished prose posts. Pick a dedicated site over social media blasts begging for comment.
NaNoWriMo: Many are writing a lot
It’s mid-November, the middle of National Novel Writing Month. I am doing my part by putting the final touches on a 117K fantasy novel that I will self-publish no later than early next month.
Writing a fresh rough draft within a month sustained my writer’s mind for a half-dozen years, but I dropped NaNoWriMo when I became serious. The yearly challenge had reinforced a number of bad writing habits because there was no critique.
Continue reading Editor Hive: Professional Versus Critique Exchanges