Halsted M. Bernard

Poetry, prose, and in between.

Archive for August, 2009

“Critiquing” is not “Editing”

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Daily Writing Tips is an outstanding blog for writers, providing concise posts about honing our skills.

This excellent reminder comes from the post “Critiquing” is not “Editing”:

Critiquing is not the same as editing. If the friend is “editing drastically,” the result is no longer a critique but a rewrite.

Sometimes we can forget this, eager as we are to accept help from others, and lose our voice in the process.

I encourage you to visit Daily Writing Tips every day for insightful advice like this.

Where We Write

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Where I Write is a collection of photographs of fantasy and science fiction authors’ “creative spaces”. I wish my creative space were as marvelous as some of these!

Where do you write? What do you like about it? What do you wish you could change?

(Thanks to my writing group leader David for the link.)