Want to Boost Your Writing? Consider a Critique Group
Most people don’t enjoy receiving critiques of their work. It’s not easy to hear that someone isn’t as enchanted with your character as you are, that your dialog is stilted, or the plot doesn’t make sense. When an editor at a conference told me that I needed to join a critique group, I wasn’t exactly thrilled with the idea. First of all, I didn’t know many writers who lived near me. Secondly, I realized it would require a considerable investment of time critiquing other people’s work, time I couldn’t devote to writing. Then there would be those dreaded critiques of my own work that I would need to deal with.
