Comments on: Finding Good Critiques http://alpha.spellcaster.org/2010/07/30/finding-good-critiques/ Alpha writing workshop website Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elena Gleason » 30 Days of Writing: Day 16 http://alpha.spellcaster.org/2010/07/30/finding-good-critiques/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Elena Gleason » 30 Days of Writing: Day 16 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:53:10 +0000 http://alpha.spellcaster.org/?p=213#comment-34 [...] Before I launch into the next question, I just realized that I forgot to mention that last week I wrote an article for the Alpha SF/F/H Workshop blog on finding good critiques. If you’re a new and/or young writer, definitely check it out, along with all the other marvelous and helpful posts from Alpha alumni and instructors. My post is here. [...] [...] Before I launch into the next question, I just realized that I forgot to mention that last week I wrote an article for the Alpha SF/F/H Workshop blog on finding good critiques. If you’re a new and/or young writer, definitely check it out, along with all the other marvelous and helpful posts from Alpha alumni and instructors. My post is here. [...]

]]> By: The Four P’s of Exposition – Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers http://alpha.spellcaster.org/2010/07/30/finding-good-critiques/comment-page-1/#comment-30 The Four P’s of Exposition – Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:13:01 +0000 http://alpha.spellcaster.org/?p=213#comment-30 [...] Catherine Krahe on Finding Good Critiques [...] [...] Catherine Krahe on Finding Good Critiques [...]

]]> By: Catherine Krahe http://alpha.spellcaster.org/2010/07/30/finding-good-critiques/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Catherine Krahe Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:45:22 +0000 http://alpha.spellcaster.org/?p=213#comment-28 I hadn't picked up on the free/cheap pattern, sorry. I also think of some things as side benefits, like finding writerfolks at cons-- I go to cons for other purposes, and that was a bonus. The con is an unrelated cost, like buying a laptop to get online. Assumptions and privileges all over the place. I hadn’t picked up on the free/cheap pattern, sorry. I also think of some things as side benefits, like finding writerfolks at cons– I go to cons for other purposes, and that was a bonus. The con is an unrelated cost, like buying a laptop to get online. Assumptions and privileges all over the place.

]]> By: Elena Gleason http://alpha.spellcaster.org/2010/07/30/finding-good-critiques/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Elena Gleason Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:37:29 +0000 http://alpha.spellcaster.org/?p=213#comment-25 Yeah, cons and workshops are the absolute best way to meet good critique partners, but it's a bummer if you can't afford them. I would have mentioned them here, but was trying to find ways that didn't involve spending money. I definitely couldn't afford conventions when I was just starting out, and I still can't afford any that involve travel and accommodation expenses, which is most of them. ...But if you CAN afford to go to conventions, then yes, that is a fantastic way to meet other spec fic writers with whom to swap stories! Yeah, cons and workshops are the absolute best way to meet good critique partners, but it’s a bummer if you can’t afford them. I would have mentioned them here, but was trying to find ways that didn’t involve spending money. I definitely couldn’t afford conventions when I was just starting out, and I still can’t afford any that involve travel and accommodation expenses, which is most of them.

…But if you CAN afford to go to conventions, then yes, that is a fantastic way to meet other spec fic writers with whom to swap stories!

]]> By: Catherine Krahe http://alpha.spellcaster.org/2010/07/30/finding-good-critiques/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Catherine Krahe Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:25:15 +0000 http://alpha.spellcaster.org/?p=213#comment-24 Some possibilities for critiquers open up when you go where writers are in general-- not just Alpha and other organized workshops, but cons in general. I wouldn't have found my Iowa City crit group, nor anyone writing in Iowa City, had I not gone to Wiscon in 2006. It took until 2007 to re-find the crit group, helped by some serious serendipity (when you meet someone cool at a con, WRITE THINGS DOWN!), but it wouldn't have happened at all without that bit of writertalk at a party. Some possibilities for critiquers open up when you go where writers are in general– not just Alpha and other organized workshops, but cons in general. I wouldn’t have found my Iowa City crit group, nor anyone writing in Iowa City, had I not gone to Wiscon in 2006. It took until 2007 to re-find the crit group, helped by some serious serendipity (when you meet someone cool at a con, WRITE THINGS DOWN!), but it wouldn’t have happened at all without that bit of writertalk at a party.

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