The Eleventh Thing

Writers often join critique groups. Others invite friends or colleagues to offer feedback on work-in-progress. Peer feedback can be important, sometimes even essential, providing helpful reality checks and critical insights. But allowing others to critique our work carries risks. Too harsh a critique may stop a writer cold and lead to an unfinished story or…

Farewell, My Darlings

“Kill Your Darlings, kill your darlings…” Stephen King On Writing   No writer likes rejection letters, particularly the impersonal ones. But even rejection plays a part in the success of what we do. Rejections can send us back to the manuscript, to reassess and, yes, to edit and rewrite. When Absolution was turned down by…