Forum: Writers


Subject: Maximum Word Length in the Galleries

Cerpher opened this issue on Jul 14, 2003 ยท 18 posts


dialyn posted Tue, 15 July 2003 at 2:37 PM

One suggestion, Cerpher, that I could make about your novels. If you want feedback on them, you might approach someone here whose writing you like or who you respect as an editor, and ask for a friendly criticism. I've done that with people I had confidence in and received some very good information about my writing. In my case, the feedback told me my writing wasn't going in the direction I wanted it to, but I needed to find that out by having a disinterested reader take a look at what I was doing. It helps that it is someone who isn't a friend of yours but is a friendly critic. I'm not much for groups tearing into each other's works either in real or cyber workshops. That's too intense for me. But getting feedback from someone who has shown some intelligence and common sense is not a bad thing to keep the courage level up while the hard part of marketing is taking place. Just a thought. Of course, that assumes you want some feedback. It's not necessarily what an author needs to keep going.