Holly Lisle, a prolific writer, has put videos online that show what an effective writing critique should look and sound like. She calls them Writer’s Crash Tests.
How often have we all received a critique from a writing partner that does less than anything? If your writing partner tells you something doesn’t work, great! We all need to know what works and what doesn’t work. But in order to make that information useful, we need suggestions of what will make that scene or passage, stronger, more powerful. For some examples of how this can be done, check out Holly’s video.
Unfortunately, my free WordPress account won’t allow me to post the video here, (grumble, grouse,) so you can watch it by clicking on this link which takes you to the Writer’s Crash Test site. Enjoy!
