Ever wished for some outside feedback about your writing? Something other than nice words from your mom or the usual fare from your crit partners? Then you should visit Flourish Editing.
Every Monday is FREE CRITIQUE MONDAY. You send them 750 words of your writing. They send you back a complete edit of your work. I know, sounds too good to be true, so last Monday I tried it. Lo and behold, later that afternoon, I received back a very nice critique from one of the Flourish staff.
Some info about their editors (taken from their site):
We are a pair of well-established editors, Tim Dedopulos and Salome Jones. Between us, we've edited over 25 million words. We've worked in publishing houses in both the United States and United Kingdom, and served as literary agents, editors, publishers, and writers, with more than 100 published fiction and non-fiction books authored between us.So what are you waiting for? Be bold and give this a whirl. What have you got to lose?
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8 comments:
Wow. I sent a file in...AHHH!!
Thanks Michelle, you rocked my Monday!
Good for you, brave woman! I'm sure you'll get some helpful feedback.
What a deal! I'll have to try it out. :)
What a great resource! I live in a town that doesn't have a prominent writing community, so this is a big help. Thanks!
Happy to help you out, Brandi!
And Ane, yeah, let's see if they have as large an affinity for slashing and burning as I do, hmmm?
SLASHED and BURNED!!Oh my word, it was a track change-a-thon!!!
Picky, picky, PICKY.
But in a "hey this was free and actually helpful" kind of way.
Well, after you finish bleeding out, hopefully you can scrape yourself off the floor and find something positive to apply to your wip???
Oh, definitely!! Some of it was my own fault, I didn't put the date or location in the chapter heading, which threw off the "where is this?" question. Some of it was a little picky, like, when to mention a meal in a sentence. Seriously, THAT isn't a hill to even get wounded on.
And does a dialogue need POV breaks between every single line? Or does the reader clue in that he/she is reading a conversation? Therefore knows the POV goes back and forth?
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