Guidelines: An Editorial Nightmare
Being a writer who wants to be published in a legit publication, I have always spent a considerable amount of time mulling over the guidelines of a magazine I want to submit to. There are a lot of obvious reasons for doing this, but the most important reason, for me, is to make sure that […]
Final Critique Group Update
Officially we are not doing it through CC anymore because I’m not going to ask Andrew or anyone else to subscribe to the premium account there. It’s not fair to you, especially since this is just starting up and there isn’t a definitive guarantee it will last for a year or forever for that matter. […]
CC Updates
I have just discovered that the premium membership at CC only allows me to start a private queue for all of you to use who don’t have premium memberships that will only let me post to the group and not you. This defeats the entire purpose of the group obviously. So I’m wondering now a […]
Critique Group! In Motion!
This is a short email to let everyone know that I have paid for the premium service on CC and as soon as they update my account I will be starting up the critique group. Now for further discussion and some questions that need answering from those that were interested. What is a reasonable frequency […]
Critique Groups…part two…
First things first: Thanks to everyone who has posted such nice comments about WISB. I really do appreciate them. There’s really nothing that can make a writer feel better than to know he or she has fans, regardless of the medium. Just knowing that there area few of you out there that are completely hooked […]
Critique Groups…part one…
I’ve always loved critique groups. After all, without them many writers would likely never have been published. Think of Tolkien and the Inklings. Would Tolkien have published The Hobbit and ultimately The Lord of the Rings? You could argue that he would have without being part of the Inklings, but then you could also argue […]