Things to look for when reading stories from other contributors. This will help their story and the process will hopefully also make you think more about these things in your own story. FIRST DRAFT EDITING AND COMMENTS How well the story is working as a whole What's working well. What’s not working as effectively as it might and could be strengthened Point to specific places, and offer her reasons for making a comment. If you suggest ways the author might address an issue try not to impose your own vision on the author’s intentions. Consistency of voice, if you are comfortable understanding the authors voice. Awkward or clunky narrative or dialogue. Syntax. Extraneous or echoed words/phrases. Consistency. Things like character and place names, descriptions, timelines. Sensitivity. If an author request this, according to Writers Digest, "An increasingly popular service involving a professional reader who is expert or has a personal background in an area of story that the...
Thank you all for a fantastic gathering Tuesday evening. As promised, here's the chat for the resources and book title suggestions (and some other stuff). We will have an in-person gathering on the fourth Tuesday of the month, June 22, at a site to be determined. I will take suggestions for that and I will be sure to make sure they're open before I send anyone out into the night. -- Calvin Beam, Writer @ Well That's My Story
A native of Chattanooga, Sherry G White is a single mother of two adult children and she lives life with chronic illness. She finds reading and writing to be great ways to pass the time when she is con"ned to bed. Although she focuses primarily on short fiction, Sherry is currently writing a paranormal romance series. Like herself, many of her protagonists tend to be single mothers with chronic illness. She was always told to ”write what you know’ so that?s what she?s doing! She also hopes to contribute to diversity in stories by putting more characters with physical challenges into print. Published in Crazy Buffet: Survival Pack
Comments
Post a Comment