feedback

This week's Huddle will take place on Saturday as usual at 5.00pm UK time. As ever, you are invited to submit your WiPs for discussion and feedback from Pete and the collective. But not only WiPs. Query letters, book proposals, synopses and blurbs are all welcome. Also, anything you've spotted...

New blog post by Jake E Be my, be my Beta. I really need to spend less time on X. Once again, I’ve stumbled upon a heated discussion on social media that I can’t help but add my two cents/pence/shillings to, and this time, I can’t understand why or how it’s a discussion. It concerns those...

Hello I've written a fantasy novel, and I've joined this group because, after making changes based on feedback from a writing group, editing, re-editing, and then editing on Grammarly, I'm seeking more feedback on all aspects of the novel. This could be on the style of writing, the plot, the...

I was trying to come up with a way of thinking about (too much) well meaning but not always on point feedback. Especially prevalent when you submit to a competition and the poor readers have to come up with something to say in their feedback... A quiver of bromides Proposed definition...

So, I've been reading a lot of Indie books recently... And by 'reading a lot of indie books' I mean reading the free samples on Amazon, and I am somewhat perturbed. Now, i am not the most confident of people. I lack a self confidence in my writing and general life that many seem to have in...

https://foxprinteditorial.com/2023/07/06/how-writers-revise-joni-b-cole-and-toxic-feedback/

https://foxprinteditorial.com/2025/02/27/editing-revision-and-giving-up-on-a-story/

I decided to make a leftover recipe thread. Here is what `I just made to use up all the bits of cheese left from the cheese board, You can use buttermilk instead off cream. Unless yu are using up cream too. AND I added turkey instead of bacon. After turkey burritos, turkey stirfry, turkey...

New blog post by Rachel McCarron My First Crit Do you remember your first time? Was it exciting? Were you nervous? Did you just want to get it over with? One of the most wonderful of the many wonderful features of the Litopia Colony is The Lab, where writers can go to experiment with their...

New blog post by Claire G – discussions in this thread, please --- The Good There’s so much to love about writing – the excitement of that initial spark of an idea; the stimulation of the challenge to make it work; that feeling you get when you find the perfect word/phrase/sentence/paragraph...

New blog post by Claire G – discussions in this thread, please --- Giving Feedback The title of this post is a sentence that’s often used at the end of a fellow writer’s feedback in the Lab, and I think it’s perfect. The first time I submitted work for critique and someone responded with this...

Alyssa's advice really complements the Litopian method of feedback:

I am new here so not sure about the mode of interaction here. I mostly try my hand at non-fiction and historical or real event based fiction. Big fan of aphorisms and terse writing. I would definitely like to know if this place caters to such kind of writing. Here is a non-fiction sample I...