Posts tagged crits/reviews

Vocabulary check: noisome

From an anonymous book, chapter 1, paragraph 3:

I spread my arms wide and leaned into the oncoming mass, blowing a whistle that was more

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When your best is not good enough

Or your first, at least, isn’t.

I finished the first draft of a major chapter, one that tied up a situation that had been brewing [...]

Critique remedy

Getting a crit from someone who dislikes your story from the get-go is a horrible experience. (I’ve given some bad crits, too, but this post [...]

Anaphora excess

I was having a heck of a time reading this one book. The story was sort of interesting, but it dragged and dragged and dragged [...]

Sword of Shannara

I missed reading the The Sword of Shannara when it first came out nearly 30 years ago, so when I saw it on the library [...]