(Manuscript #1 word count: 53,947) This week I’ve been trying to focus on getting the words down on the page. Not easy with a big self-imposed deadline looming; hubby and I are going to India for two weeks on Friday, and I want to have 60,000 words of my draft done by then. Since I’ll… Continue reading RWA–British style
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Questions to ask your manuscript
If you do get a critique partner (or, say, you have a wonderful PhD-candidate husband who’s studying literature and who looks at your last post lamenting the lack of a critique partner, and says in his most sympathetic voice: “I’ll be your critique partner”), what exactly do you get them to comment on? It seems… Continue reading Questions to ask your manuscript
Finding a critique partner
For a while there, I was going great guns. Two thousand, three thousand words in a sitting–man, the words were pouring out. Now, though, they’re more like a trickle. I’ve got 47,054 of them, and that’s only about 50 more than I had two weeks ago. The problem is that I keep reading and re-reading… Continue reading Finding a critique partner