Did you crit today?

LaceWing · Dec 24, 2010

Well? Did you? It does a writer good.

I'm sort of critting Selden Edward's The Little Book as I read it for the third time. Meanwhile, this week I've hit on two poems and two shorts.

Margarita Skies · Dec 24, 2010

Not today. Actually I don't remember the last time I 'crit'd.' It was in SYW and it was about a month ago, and had to think twice about what I had to say. I'll leave it to your imagination because it still makes me feel really bad. It wasn't disrespectful but I think the writer was so hurt that she didn't contact me again. It wasn't my intention, but then again we can only control what we say and write to other people...not how they're going to react.

KingM · Dec 24, 2010

I'm writing a detailed critique for a client. I probably learn more doing that than anything else I do, but it's long, slow work.

LaceWing · Dec 24, 2010

I cheat by not always writing out my responses.

The other half of it is that showing something to others completes a circuit. With or without a response, it helps me see my own work differently. And that I can't cheat my way through.

kaitie · Dec 25, 2010

I'm working on a beta right now, and I've been trying to get through a few pages a day. Sometimes I can get up to forty or fifty, but my brain starts to hurt after that. Thinking critically of things is definitely a mental workout, and it does help me with my own stuff. I think in my case, though, learning how to properly edit my own stuff has helped me to give better crits.

I'm lucky in that I haven't had anyone take anything really negatively yet, even though I give tough crits. I always try to point out the positive as well, though, and I try to be careful about my wording, so that might help.

Aerial · Dec 25, 2010

I did

I hang out in SYW quite a bit. I'm slowly learning how to write a query letter.

Aerial

LaceWing · Dec 25, 2010

I wish there were more synopses to chew on.

Another thing I do is rewrite stuff (privately) as an exercise. Likely as not, it'll be the voice and the pacing I will change radically. Thus I learn something or other, and thus I get my fingers moving across the keyboard.

Darzian · Dec 25, 2010

I'm mentally critting the book I'm reading right now.

Did you crit today?

LaceWing

Margarita Skies

KingM

LaceWing

kaitie

With great power comes

Aerial

There is no spoon.

LaceWing

Darzian

To-to-to-ron-to