Wednesday 11 November 2009

Evaluating your own work

Author and writing teacher Laraine Herring has posted an excellent hand-out that she gives to her advanced fiction students to help them evaluate their manuscripts. Click here to read it.

13 comments:

Judith Mercado said...

Thanks, Ann, for that link. What a wonderful list.

lotusgirl said...

One of the most important things for us to learn as writers is to evaluate our own work. Thanks for the link.

Robyn Campbell said...

Thank you for the link. I really enjoyed reading and learning. That is a great checklist to use. I will use it for a long time to come.

How are you? I hope you are well. :)

Nancy J. Parra said...

Hi Ann, great link. Thanks for posting it. Cheers~

Marilyn Brant said...

Thanks for the link, Ann! Off to read it now...
Hope the rest of your week is wonderful :).

Amanda Holly said...

Just read Laraine's checklist. Great link! Thanks for providing it. Happy writing!

Romy said...

Thanks for the link. Some great tips in there!

Laraine Herring said...

Thanks for sharing my work with your readers, Ann!

Laraine

Ann Victor said...

JUDITH: Glad you found the list helpful.

LOTUSGIRL: I find evaluating my own work difficult, so this handout came in very handy.

ROBYN: Hope all well in your corner of the world. :) Reading Laraine’s post was a great learning experience.

NANCY: Pleasure!

MARILYN: And hope your week is also wonderful. Thanks for the lovely note in the autographed copy of “According to Jane” I received this week :)

AMANDA: Happy writing to you too!

ROMY: I’m glad you found the link useful.

LARAINE: It was my pleasure…thank *you* for sharing it with us!

Judy Sheldon-Walker said...

I am anxious to come back when I have time to follow the link. Your content had me engrossed and I know you will find yourself published.

Ann Victor said...

JUDY: Welcome to the blog! I'm glad you found it of interest. Thanks for your words of encouragement. :)

distresseddamsel said...

Thank you very much for posting this link. This is very helpful for newbie writers who are at a loss as to how to evaluate their own works.

Ann Victor said...

DOUBLE D: Welcome to the blog. I hope you manage to find some more articles that help you feel at home. Good luck with your writing - soon you won't be a newbie writer at all! :)