How Can You Tell When It's GOOD Advice?

Yesterday I went to my writing group, where two of my fellow writers had submitted pages, and the rest of us told those (un?)lucky two what we thought.

Sometimes we agreed, which is always reassuring, both as a writer and a critiquer--it means there's probably something legitimate in the criticism.

And sometimes we didn't. At all. Or sometimes we offered wildly different potential solutions to perceived problems. Like mine was "maybe more dialogue" and someone else's was "if she passed out from pain, that would explain things"-level different.

Take My Advice...

Some of you may know, one of the many random writing projects I've undertaken is giving advice. Because I'm so qualified to pass judgment on the lives of others, right?

No need to respond to that.

Either way, I do it, and it's set up so that people can submit questions anonymously (or not) through forms, not direct emails. Because maybe you don't want me to know that you were the one "asking for a friend" about whether you need to confess to anyone about that night on the yacht...

So ask away! And check it out on Saturdays at BDCwire. Who knows, you may learn something...

No need to respond to that, either.