Can I just tell you how much I love to get my work critiqued? It’s an absolutely amazing process that I’m in love with. I love hearing (or in my case, reading) “How about adding this…?” “You could cut this…” “Go into more detail here.” “You don’t need so much detail here.” or my personal favorite, “This is excellent, don’t change a thing!”
It’s fascinating and so much fun. I love seeing how other people view my characters and story, I love the suggested word substitutions that I never would have thought of, I love being told that I was longwinded here, and left the reader hanging there. I love the rewording of sentences into more cohesive prose. I love the reaffirmation and the honesty and the friendship required to share your hard work with someone and know that they only have your best interests at heart.
Because when all is said and done, I end up with a much better book and far tighter story. Heartfelt thanks go out to my cp’s! 
I too love a good critique and I like giving them because they only make you a better writer.
on August 20th, 2004 at 4:06 pm
Good critiques are awesome! SO much help. If (WHEN!
) I get published, it’s going to be a direct result of good crits. There are definitely some people I’ll have to put in the ‘thank-yous!’
on August 20th, 2004 at 6:38 am
on August 20th, 2004 at 4:49 am
As oneof those cp’s I can honestly say it’s easy to crit your work. It’s so fun to read that sometimes I forget I’m supposed to be critiquing it!! :hehe:
on August 20th, 2004 at 2:18 am