So two years ago, I joined Scribophile, an on-line critiquing site. At the time, Grandpa was living with us, and life happened...I just didn't have time to devote to it. The concept of the site is that you earn karma points for critiquing others' work, and then you can spend the points to have your own work critiqued. It's a solid concept. At the time, though, I needed to focus more on writing and family than on being a member of a writing community.
Now that I have entered ABNA (two and a half days to find out if I made the quarter-finals!), I know I need real feedback on my writing. And of course, you have to give what you wish to receive.
So I'm trying Scribophile again, because I got one of their newsletters and decided to check it out. I had totally forgotten all about it - even the couple of critiques I'd originally done seemed completely foreign. I have no memory of ever writing them, which is scary.
I've already read an amazing short story there - "To Arms, To Arms" by Stephen Fox. It is clever and unique. Takes less than ten minutes to read. Head on over to Scribophile and check it out.
I posted the prologue to High Maintenance - my first bit of writing shared on the web, outside of ABNA. Here's hoping someone finds merit in it somewhere, because I think that is the novel I'm going to focus on revising next. Or maybe not. Let's see what the critiques say.
Cross your fingers.
