What a great meeting again, a rather different format but very interesting and educational, the perfect combination.
Instead of just sharing our wonderful work and inviting comments afterwards, the group aimed for a more structured format for critiquing members writing.
Breaking up into smaller groups, those with work to
share, read them to the more intimate group, more than once on most cases, and then followed a set of guidelines to help consider the many aspects of writing. This was to learn what to appreciate and how to make constructive criticism aimed to help the creative process in its many aspects.
One the whole, the workshop was a great success and will be repeated at another meeting next year; practice makes perfect we hope.
The notes on Critiquing can be downloaded here if you would like to use them yourselves. Just click on the image to find them.
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