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Last September I joined Scribophile, an online writing community that specializes in peer review and critique. So here it is, almost a year later, and I thought I’d do a little update to the Scribophile review I posted then. At the moment, I’ve got the first twelve scenes of my current project up on Scrib, with a total of 63 …
How to be a tortured artist if you actually have a pretty good life: write something you love, then give it to someone else and ask them to tear it to pieces. I’ve talked about writing groups and critique before, and you know that I think peer feedback can be really useful at certain stages of your writing, but it …
I posted earlier on the subject of Honesty vs Tact in critiquing. The problem with the Honesty vs Tact argument is that the two are not mutually exclusive. Tact is not dishonesty. Tact is the ability to communicate our ideas without giving offense. Naturally, we can only do so much to avoid giving offense–especially if we want to honestly express …
A topic recently came up on the Scribophile forums, posing the question: When critiquing someone else’s work, is it better to be honest or tactful? The overwhelming response seemed to be “Brutal honesty is the only way to learn”, but I had a big problem with the original premise. Honesty and tact are not on opposite sides of a spectrum, …
I’ve been a member of www.fantasy-writers.org for a long time, but recently I signed up for another writing site, Scribophile. The community of writers there is much larger, and not so tightly focused (all genres are represented there). So far I’ve been really enjoying it.