02 December 2007

No Tough Love Today

The crit group was cancelled due to inclement weather, so that sucked. Just as well, because I didn't have anything to contribute this week aside from my usual half-baked opinions of other folks' writing, much like the half-baked thinking I'm about to share with you now.

I've come across a bunch of stories lately that make me wonder what would happen if I re-typed them and submitted them to the crit group. What would they say about unclear narration, too many points of view, or just plain too many adverbs ending in -ly in a story I tried to pass off as mine? Would they have the same comments regardless of who wrote the story?

And, I'm not talking about the authors everybody loves to hate, either. I'm talking about writers whose talent I'd gladly sell a testicle to Ol' Scratch to have. So, I'm not hatin' on anyone.

Makes me go, "Hmm..."