Call for submissions
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As we only have one more month, four more posts in the 26-week series on Writing Coach Sessions, I’d like to ask all of you to chime in on a couple of ideas for our future programming.
Feedback and critique sessions
Would you be interested in submitting a sample of your work, say 1-2,000 words, for feedback?
Would you be comfortable with your sample and the accompanying feedback being posted on A Writer’s Block?
This could make an excellent follow-up to this Writing Coach series. I would take the approximately four to eight pages of your work and critique/analyze it against the twenty-six sessions covered in this series.
You might find it helpful, and others might find it helpful as well. I’ve always learned from others critiquing my work, and I’ve learned just as much from reading critiques of other writers’ works as well. Many times I’ve had that “Oh, I do that too!” moment or get great ideas on how to improve my story or writing.
Let me know in the comments if this is something you’d be interested in participating in, or even just interested in reading feedback on others’ works.
New topics, deeper dives
My second request is for your ideas on specific writing topics that we haven’t covered already that you’d like me to address, or topics we have covered before that you’d like to explore in more depth.
If it’s something I feel I have enough knowledge to talk about, I’ll give it a try. If I don’t have enough knowledge on that topic, I’ll do some research and see if I can come up with some wisdom from others to share. Or, I could just pretend I’m an expert and make something up.
Okay, I promise not to do that.
Let me know. I can keep coming up with ideas for new posts, but I want to address topics that you’re most interested in when it comes to the art and craft of writing fiction.
Leave your suggestions in the comments.
Great response already to the idea of submitting work for feedback on A Writer's Block. We've got three more weeks in the 26-week writing coach series, so that will give me a little time to put together a program, and give y'all time to send something my way. I might buy myself one extra week by diving in first (to make sure I can take as good as I give). I'll post a recently short story that hasn't been published and let you all tell me what you like, didn't like, how to make it better. I had submitted it to a contest, but alas, it didn't win, so obviously it could have been improved.
Hi Robb, Yes I'd be interested in submitting a sample for critique and feedback. Also, as Maegan said, some focus on short story vs. long form fiction.