How To Critique and Edit Your OWN Writing

Here is a helpful post from Dan Alatorre’s blog.

Dan Alatorre

If you enter my Word Weaver Writing Contest, I’ll be critiquing the first 25 entries. That’s super helpful, to have a bestselling author give you some input. Just ask anyone. Or ask folks like THESE, who thought it was helpful.

Whether you join a critique group or not, you need to know some basics about good storytelling that your 8^thgrade English teacher didn’t tell you.

These will be helpful to you even if you’re not in a group, but they’re written as though you just entered my writing contest or joined my critique group and I’m about to read your story. Okay?Okay.

BTW, you should join a critique group – mine or another one. We talked about that HERE.

These are things for you to watch for as you write and revise your masterpiece. It’s part editing, part critiquing. As I read…

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