Honest Critiques
No, I mean it. REAL honest. Email your excerpts or full stories, up to 1000 words or so, to honestcrits [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk. Synopses would also be welcome. My backlog is so daunting now that I recommend not submitting anything you are not prepared to wait a couple of months for a response on.
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Thursday, August 18, 2005
Inundated
Hello everyone.
So, I now have more than 25 things awaiting critique. I credit the Statue. I'm going to try to do one a day, so reckon three weeks now from submitting things and hopefully I'll do better than that.
I suppose if I keep getting things at the rate of four or five a day, I'll have to think about a week's submissions moratorium, but it's not too bad right now.
I hope this is a useful experiment for everybody who's reading this. It is certainly proving to be useful for me. It's making me think very hard about how to respond to people who I would normally be able to blow off with a form rejection note, and that can't be a bad thing. If it were to make a few authors think more carefully and in a more informed way about how editors are going to respond to their work, that would be excellent.
So, I now have more than 25 things awaiting critique. I credit the Statue. I'm going to try to do one a day, so reckon three weeks now from submitting things and hopefully I'll do better than that.
I suppose if I keep getting things at the rate of four or five a day, I'll have to think about a week's submissions moratorium, but it's not too bad right now.
I hope this is a useful experiment for everybody who's reading this. It is certainly proving to be useful for me. It's making me think very hard about how to respond to people who I would normally be able to blow off with a form rejection note, and that can't be a bad thing. If it were to make a few authors think more carefully and in a more informed way about how editors are going to respond to their work, that would be excellent.
Torgo, 8:15 pm
5 Comments:
Take heart, man. You're doing a great thing.
And don't worry... we writers are used to waiting far longer than three weeks for a response. :-)
Good luck and happy critting!
And don't worry... we writers are used to waiting far longer than three weeks for a response. :-)
Good luck and happy critting!
I knew I should have sent you something already. *grin*
I really appreciate what you are doing. I sold a couple of short stories, poems - then cancer and I am just now beginning again. Also, I am 1500 miles from my old writing group. Thank you, Joyce
Writers need feedback.It's as simple as that.You sound constructive.You sound as though you know what you're talking about. Thanks for taking it on.
Thanks for the nice thoughts, everyone, and I'm glad to be helpful if I can.
