First Reviews

Woah. Last night I went to the workshop and, because of a clerical error on my part, I had two stories up for critique. There were good things and bad things about my stories, and lots of ideas about fixes and improvements. I should have asked a few people how they come back from a workshop with twenty different copies of the same story with all of the comments, some of which contradict each other.

The long and the short of it is both stories need a massive re-write. Taking the core idea of each story and starting over. Trying to edit the texts as they are into new stories would be a nightmare. My carpool mate described what happened to the story we critiqued last week, and it looked like she did a major rewrite.

Since submitting those stories to the workshop I realized that there are books that I could read about writing that would help, and after reading them I realized that my stories are lacking the finer points of the craft of writing. From the comments I recieved I'm doing all right with the art, but the craft needs work.

So off I go, re-working these two stories, and I signed up to submit a new story on January 4, so I'll have to make sure that that story implements the craft.