Monday, August 16, 2010

SFFOWW

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Online Writing Workshop is another great resource. Yes, they have links to various articles and information that's succinct and actually useful. But their primary purpose is as a critique group.

At $49/year, you're not getting just anyone to review your work; you get people who can review your work with an informed opinion. And the first month's free as well.

For each review you do of someone else's work, you earn 1 review point. In order to post your stuff, you need 4 review points. True, you start your membership with 4 points, but you can only post up to 7,500 words (a short story or a chapter or two). So the more crits you do, the more you can post your own work for review.

Personally, I've found that reading other critiques is helping me get a handle on what kind of info to provide to others. At first, I just read a story and took notes on things that stuck out to me (good and bad). Now I'm starting to focus my comments based on the Hardcore Critique Advice article by Amy Sterling Casil.

All in all, the SFFOWW is an awesome resource that's well worth the time and money for anyone involved in genre fiction.

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