I’ve talked before (see Links , below) about how I write a critique, but I’ve never written about how I do a general review. Time to chan...

In my Last post , I examined Act One of the three act structure. Today, let’s look at Act Two. But, before we get to that, please kee...

I’ve just finished a string of posts on the topic of critical reading ( Writing A Critique: Reading Critically ). While I was writing...

The Critique To recap: There are two parts or stages to writing a critique. The first part—what I’ve been talking about the past ...

Today I’m going to finish up the critical reading portion of these posts. We’ll finish examining the anatomy of a scene by taking a loo...

Today I continue my two part series on reading critically. I had hoped to wrap things up today, but that’s not going to happen! Last ...

This title should read “How I Critique A Story” because that’s what I’ll be writing about, but it just didn’t have the same ring to ...

Today I read Jody Hedlund's excellent article, 5 Tips For Finding a Competent & Compatible Critique Partner . If you are looking f...

Yesterday I was going to write a post about how to critique prefaced by a few words about what I mean when I say a story is good. Well, t...

This was going to be a post about critiquing with a short introduction about what we mean--or what I mean--by "good writing". T...