I spent most of my night last night shifting through years of critiques, the hard copy kind. Out of the four critiqued manuscripts I found, three of them are published or soon to be published, so when I reviewed the critiques certain realizations occurred to me. Namely, voice, style, and anything but copy editing is so subjective in a critique that I began to question whether or not expanding the energy to a critique group is actually effective. Then I read a critique from my first book, the one no one will likely ever see. In those pages I saw just why critiques are important.
How do you feel about your critiques?
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