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The craft of giving feedback, taking it, and revising with it.
How to critique a novel chapter in 40 minutes
2026-07-31 · 10 min read
The two-pass critique method, worked end to end on chapter one of Jack London's The Sea-Wolf. Read once as a stranger, test your memory, name the causes, rank, hand back.
Read the guideWhere to get feedback on your writing
2026-07-31 · 5 min read
An honest guide to every option with the real prices attached: reciprocal workshops, Reddit, Discords, freelance editors, and what each one costs in dollars or critique hours.
Read the guideWhy most writing feedback is useless
2026-07-31 · 4 min read
Vague praise, the sandwich, the anonymous stranger. What the feedback research actually shows, why the workshops solved it in 1956, and the one thing that makes a note worth reading.
Read the guideCritique partner vs beta reader vs editor: which one do you need?
2026-07-31 · 4 min read
Three roles, three different questions about your manuscript. What each one does, what each one costs, and the order that wastes neither money nor your only fresh read.
Read the guideHow to find a critique partner who actually helps
2026-07-31 · 5 min read
A one-exchange audition that tells you whether a critique partner can read, before you send them a page of your own novel. What to match on, where to look, and the red flags.
Read the guideHow to revise after beta reader feedback
2026-07-31 · 4 min read
Readers are almost always right that something is wrong and almost always wrong about the fix. How to triage notes into report, taste, and error, and revise in the order editors work.
Read the guideHow to give feedback on a poem
2026-07-31 · 6 min read
Read the poem four times: once for sound, once for the line, once for the image, and once for the place you lost the thread. The method, worked on a real Amy Lowell poem.
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