You've Got Homework!
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...