Critique/Review Sites and Groups

[Nathan Bransford]

I'm putting my hand up for a "share your work" thread in here too. I have tried a couple of various critique sites, but for some reason I find the people in this forum are a lot more trustworthy, friendly and most of all helpful and encouraging. As if Nathan didn't have enough on his plate.

I'm going to let this post linger through the holidays and see if Nathan chimes in with any plans for a share your work portion on this site. If he indicates that he isn't going to set that up as separate forum (or however it might work), then I'll start a yahoo group. Like you, I've found some of the best writing advice within the commentary and forums of this blog and I'd love to get some of these brains to digest my writing.

Hey guys, that's an interesting idea for a share your work forum. One of the reasons I've chosen to have just a few forums is that I personally get confused when I approach a discussion forum with zillions of different forums. I think it would be totally fine if you posted, say, short fiction or excerpts your work in the All Things Writing thread.

These forums are yours, however you want to use them is up to you!

[Terry Towery]

Hey guys, that's an interesting idea for a share your work forum. One of the reasons I've chosen to have just a few forums is that I personally get confused when I approach a discussion forum with zillions of different forums. I think it would be totally fine if you posted, say, short fiction or excerpts your work in the All Things Writing thread.

These forums are yours, however you want to use them is up to you!"

Whoa (ducking as the stampede begins!). So now all ten-gazillion of us will post our first chapters on here in the hopes that St. Nich .. er, Nathan reads it and sends us a breathless e-mail that begins something like this: "Wow! Just read your stuff on the forums and you gotta send me the whole thing RIGHT NOW!"

Sigh....

Technologically speaking, can the forums handle such an onslaught?

Ok, I'm just kidding here. Sort of.

Terry

[Nathan Bransford]

Hey guys, that's an interesting idea for a share your work forum. One of the reasons I've chosen to have just a few forums is that I personally get confused when I approach a discussion forum with zillions of different forums. I think it would be totally fine if you posted, say, short fiction or excerpts your work in the All Things Writing thread.

These forums are yours, however you want to use them is up to you!"

Whoa (ducking as the stampede begins!). So now all ten-gazillion of us will post our first chapters on here in the hopes that St. Nich .. er, Nathan reads it and sends us a breathless e-mail that begins something like this: "Wow! Just read your stuff on the forums and you gotta send me the whole thing RIGHT NOW!"

Sigh....

Technologically speaking, can the forums handle such an onslaught?

Ok, I'm just kidding here. Sort of.

Terry

Haha... I guess we'll just see how it goes. If there's a work-posting-stampede we can adjust and add the dedicated forum. I guess we'll assess the demand in the meantime.

[Crystal]

LOL, Saint Nathan...that is funny.

I would like to post portions of my wip, but not in hopes that Nathan would read it. Not yet any way. If he reads it I want it to be the final product that I have submitted to him for consideration. :)

[Rick Daley]

For query critiques, try The Public Query Slushpile at http://openquery.blogspot.com

I am the blog moderator, and I usually post submissions same day. Feedback is typically fast and thorough. It's a friendly forum, not a venue for snarky shredding.

I recently started another blog called crtiXchange http://crtixchange.blogspot.com

critXchange is a posting board for writers looking for people to critique a full or partial manuscript. Submissions each get their own post, which includes title, word count, genre, and a story description. Any resulting critiques are between the writer and the critter...they are not posted on the blog. It's just a meeting place.

[Ermo]

Cool idea Rick - Thanks for sharing. You have a typo in your blog link, though. You might want to correct that.

[Holly]

Also Sci Fi, Fantasy, or Horror for $49/year, must crit to be critted: http://sff.onlinewritingworkshop.com/

That site is recommended by agent Colleen Lindsay:

http://theswivet.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html

"...This workshop is an inexpensive alternative to Clarion and Odyssey and has spawned some fabulous writers such as Elizabeth Bear, Kelly Link, Sarah Prineas, Melissa Marr, Karin Lowachee, Karen Miller, Charles Coleman Finlay and Josh Palmatier. Seriously, I cannot recommend this online workshop highly enough. It is the best $49 you will ever spend to further your writing career. [Edit to add: Jennifer Jackson just reminded me that Jim Butcher also came out of this workshop!...]"

[lexcade]

i've been a member of http://www.penwrights.com for almost ten years. the people on there have been beyond helpful (and we need some new blood!!!!!). they're great. and it's really informal, too.

and free.