Comments on: Does Competitive Critiquing Work? http://writerunboxed.com/2008/03/26/does-competitive-critiquing-work/ about the craft and business of fiction Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:08:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob http://writerunboxed.com/2008/03/26/does-competitive-critiquing-work/#comment-65664 Rob Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:46:08 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/03/26/does-competitive-critiquing-work/#comment-65664 Wow, this is fantastic. A really great idea, especially for those of us who live out in the boonies. I will have to add a link about this to my blog. My readers will love it! Wow, this is fantastic. A really great idea, especially for those of us who live out in the boonies. I will have to add a link about this to my blog. My readers will love it!

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]]> By: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2008/03/26/does-competitive-critiquing-work/#comment-65662 Kathleen Bolton Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:33:03 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/03/26/does-competitive-critiquing-work/#comment-65662 "At the end of the month, the top five are each given a free, professional critique by agents and editors at Curtis Brown, Orion, Bloomsbury, and others. Imagine getting a rejection letter back that was three pages long and detailed everything the agent liked and didn’t like about your story." I think this is a terrific opportunity. If nothing else, you've learned more about your writing by critiquing someone else's. Great post, Gavin. Thanks for sharing this with our readers. “At the end of the month, the top five are each given a free, professional critique by agents and editors at Curtis Brown, Orion, Bloomsbury, and others. Imagine getting a rejection letter back that was three pages long and detailed everything the agent liked and didn’t like about your story.”

I think this is a terrific opportunity. If nothing else, you’ve learned more about your writing by critiquing someone else’s.

Great post, Gavin. Thanks for sharing this with our readers.

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]]> By: theamcginnis http://writerunboxed.com/2008/03/26/does-competitive-critiquing-work/#comment-65660 theamcginnis Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:45:53 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2008/03/26/does-competitive-critiquing-work/#comment-65660 sounds like an opportunity to get some unbiased feedback. and maybe that is the ultimate problem with crit groups - how does the writer know that their critique group buddies are really working in their best interests? even when people don't mean to undermine someone else, they do for all sorts of conscious and unconscious reasons. YOUWRITEON can be a solid, safe alternative to the lingering questions of crit group imbalances. thanks, WU, for the info. sounds like an opportunity to get some unbiased feedback. and maybe that is the ultimate problem with crit groups – how does the writer know that their critique group buddies are really working in their best interests? even when people don’t mean to undermine someone else, they do for all sorts of conscious and unconscious reasons. YOUWRITEON can be a solid, safe alternative to the lingering questions of crit group imbalances. thanks, WU, for the info.

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