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I'm seriously in the cups, so take this methanol-soaked opinion for what it's worth. I didn't watch the video. However, I recognize that even the most well-intentioned critique runs the risk of dulling the author's voice. We all need to be...

Halfway through this vlog, Alyssa talks about how taking on board GOOD feedback can help develop you voice. So, I challenge us all to help strengthen one another's writing and voices. When you critique someone else's MS, push yourself to point...

Hi Julie @JGTurla Follow the link Rachel posted for the Lab or select it from the forums list. There you will see the list of projects in the Lab. The threads with work to critique have the blue prefix 'need a critique'. The ones with most...

Thanks, Rachel. :cool: @JGTurla - @RK Wallis has beaten me to it and The Lab is indeed the area of the colony to go to for critique. Our moderator there is @Sedayne and I'm tagging her in this post. She will be able to give you any info you...

It's here: The Lab You click on Forums up the top of this screen, then go down until you see 'The Writing Lab.' Hope that helps :)

I've got some real world data to back up @Hannah Faoileán. My RR experiment saw only 50% of readers clicking on the 800 words titled 'Prologue'. The remaining 50% went straight from the main fiction page to Chapter 1. Since a key character...

Great tips for prologues. Maybe they're not popular because they don't often give enough of that extra gem? This is exactly what Jennifer said re why someone reads a synopsis! And it makes sense. So yeah, best to give them what they want. I've...

Pieces of advice I've been given for prologues (YA readership, but probably applies to more): 1) 50% or your readers will skip the prologue, so if you have one, it must give those who read it an extra gem rather than be necessary for...

I've read some prologues I love. And I think for historical, which I know nothing about, I can see it's important. I was interested in the idea that if you have a prologue, then maybe it should be included in your synopsis. Because then when you...

I just did a workshop put on by Jane Friedman, taught by Jessica Strawser on synopsis. In it, Jessica said that one of the reasons a lot of agents don't like prologues is because they’ve read the query and the synopsis, which prompts them to read...