Critter Notices
Critters is 30!
Last November, Critters turned 30 years old! Wow! Thanks so much to all of you, who've made it such a resounding success!
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From: mcq@en.com (Maureen F. McHugh) [Writing about being an instructor at Clarion] ...My critique template starts with a sentence summation of what the story is about. (You'd be surprised how often someone summarizes your story and you think, hey, wait, that wasn't the important part--which tells you something about where the weight is falling in the story.) Then they had to tell how the story was effective, how the story wasn't effective, and make a suggestion for improvement. Oddly enough, this is an amazingly good formula to get critiques that feel useful rather than savage. (You always feel savaged a bit after critique, I mean, that's your baby on the later, you know?) And it worked really well.