today, critique time, and I always go in thinking, “Yowzer! I have nailed this.” And. I come out thinking, “Whoa! I have so much more work to do.” Good times. 🙂 Now that is a good critique group. Here are three things I think a good critique group does: 1. A good critique group talks…
unresolved subplots…
Apparently I am a much more visual person than I previously thought. I have my DVR set to record all of the my favorite shows, regardless of whether they’re reruns or not. Just because. Well sometimes there’s nothing on that I want to see and so I’d rather reread a book or revisit an episode…
puppy joy….
when Bayley was in high school an upper classmen [or is it class woman since she was in an all girls school? do they even use that term today?] said that all cute dogs are always puppies. And so they are. Our puppies, well, the three we have now, Grady having given us amazing joy,…
plot twists…
as a reader of mysteries, it’s the plot twists that make for a sensational story. Yanking your readers down one path only to have it blow up, leaving them feeling like there is nothing left and then opening a new path. That is tough work. I know, I’m trying to do just that in my…