What do you say when that happens ( Read more... )

I know I've said a lot about critique already...but I have one little morsel to add ( Read more... )

If I had listened to every single thing every person of critique has ever said about my writing, and made changes accordingly...my writing would suck.

If I had ignored every critique..my writing would suck.

Yes...it's a quasi-quandary. How to tell the good stuff from the bad?

So first consider the person who provided the critique. An agent, editor, ( Read more... )

A long, long, time ago in a galaxy far, far away when I was a writer begging on streets for crumbs of approval (can you tell my birthday is coming up?)....

...the author of two award winning picture books agreed to critique my first novel, a middle-grade called Vanessa the Contessa. Sure, my audience was 10-13 year old girls, not middle-aged men. ( Read more... )