Comments on: My writing efforts in November https://grahamclements.com/my-writing-efforts-in-november/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-writing-efforts-in-november Writer, blogger, and dreamer. Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 By: Graham Clements https://grahamclements.com/my-writing-efforts-in-november/#comment-1091 Sun, 13 Dec 2015 05:53:39 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/my-writing-efforts-in-november/#comment-1091 Anthony, getting the right target audience to critique my writing is part of the problem. I had no problems asking Chris and two of the people at the Writers Forum to critique the story because they write fantasy, which is what my story is. But with my science fiction stories it has always been hard to find Australian science fiction writers to critique my writing. In the various writing courses I have done, an ignorance that leads to a snobbery against science fiction prevailed with most of the other writers avoiding critiquing it. (While I had to put up with critiquing endless biographical stories where nothing happened.)I am still looking for an online Victorian science fiction critiquing group. I have used critters.org, but I would prefer something less anonymous. But unless I decide to go back to redraft a novella, I won't have anything for people to critique for a few months as I am only about 20,000 words into redrafting a novel at the moment.

]]> By: Anthony J. Langford https://grahamclements.com/my-writing-efforts-in-november/#comment-1092 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:55:35 +0000 https://grahamclements.com/my-writing-efforts-in-november/#comment-1092 Youre getting a lot of work done and being productive so dont be too hard on yourself re the word count. Art is very subjective. I once paid someone to give an appraisal of my novel, the second one I wrote, and it was clear to me, apart from some grammar issues which I agreed with, I believed they misunderstood parts of it. I just didn't agree with what they said. It was a YA book though so a middle aged persons opinion was not the best one. Actually I just had an 8 yo read my first novel and he loved it. Pity we cant get the target audience to give the ok.
Long story short, trust your own judgment.

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