Savannah Writers Group

Every once in a while in the publishing community, writerly folks get together at one website and auction their services for a good cause. Just such an auction is going on now. It's called Crits for Water and you can check it out now by following the link. How does it work? Over at the website an author, editor, agent, or some such person offers a service. Here are two examples: Numero Uno: Kicking off our adult fiction and non-fiction month is the Evil Genius Andrew Shaffer , the cackly and clever mind behind the upcoming satire Fifty Shames of Earl Grey . He is offering a critique of the first 2500 words of any adult non-fiction book proposal . Numero Dos: Rounding off the Romance month of April (a little extra, ’cause it’s awesome) is multiple RITA-Award winning Sherry Thomas , whose new historical Beguiling the Beauty releases today (so excited!!). Sherry also has a young adult fantasy series that will hit the shelves starting Fall, 2013. She is offeri...

In our last SWG meeting, which met on Tuesday, April 10th, we were given a homework assignment. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with or locate handy examples of Critique Cheat Sheets and email your favorites to Sally Klein at:  customer (at) coastalnow (dot) net What is a Critique Cheat Sheet? Just like it sounds, we would be able to print off a few of these and bring them to meetings. When a writer shares his or her work, we'll then have a list of criteria with which to evaluate the piece. Some items we may want to include on such a tool might be: Opening Plot Setting Characterization Dialogue Point of View Show versus tell Imagery Grammar and spelling Style We might also want our writers to know whether or not their piece is "our cup of tea" when it comes to genre and whether we'd keep reading. If you don't write poetry or science fiction, you may have limited knowledge and interest in such pieces. That would be good...