Monthly Archives: August 2009

“Critiquing” is not “Editing”

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

Where We Write

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.)