Honing those words
Last time I used Critique Circle was way back in 2007. The website tells me I only joined in November 2006 (although I have a memory of being part of it for much longer). I’m not sure why I have…
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Last time I used Critique Circle was way back in 2007. The website tells me I only joined in November 2006 (although I have a memory of being part of it for much longer). I’m not sure why I have…
Continue readingLast time I used Critique Circle was way back in 2007. The website tells me I only joined in November 2006 (although I have a memory of being part of it for much longer). I’m not sure why I have…
Continue readingClaire asked me yesterday whether I had ever had any negative comments or criticism over my writing and how I dealt with that. To be honest I can’t really recall ever having experienced that, so maybe that means I write…
Continue readingI received my first Icelandic critique of the opening chapters of my novel today. It didn’t come, as you might think, from one of the my cousins, but from a fellow critter, Sif Traustadóttir, on CritiqueCircle. When I saw that…
Continue reading1. The drive into work this morning was gorgeous; clear and bright but with a slight misty haziness over the fields and a pinky-red tinge to the whispy slither-like clouds. 2. In 10 days journal, his journal will be four…
Continue reading1. The drive into work this morning was gorgeous; clear and bright but with a slight misty haziness over the fields and a pinky-red tinge to the whispy slither-like clouds. 2. In 10 days journal, his journal will be four…
Continue readingI’ve been getting some good critiques from CritiqueCircle. They are perhaps not coming in as numerously as they do to some people – and I still can’t fathom exactly what it is that leads some stories to get dramatically different…
Continue readingI have recently registered with Critique Circle and uploaded my first story there. It’s up for critiquing on the 22 November as I still try and find my way around the site. It feels right to try out this critiquing…
Continue readingI’ve had my first YouWriteOn review! I confess that I would have preferred something more positive; something that showed a greater sense of the wow, but it’s not unfair. I’m disappointed that the reader didn’t ‘get it’ quite so much…
Continue readingUpon returning from London Town, I had an encouraging email response from siren_songs as regards chapter one (the first 20,000 words) of Blood & Fire. I think one of the things I find most encouraging about it, that not only…
Continue readingPosted here for soulsong … see, I did go and do some writing last night! Thanks for the telling off!!
Continue readingPosted here for soulsong … see, I did go and do some writing last night! Thanks for the telling off!!
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