Whenever the members of our writers group are unavailable for a face-to-face meeting at alternating houses or libraries located between us, we have found that emailing our chapters for critique works very well.
Over the years, we’ve developed a system that provides suggestions to add, delete, or adjust wording.
Yellow Highlighted … suggests words or phrases that could be eliminated without losing the gist of the story.
Black Bolded … provides either alternate wording or phrasing for the yellow highlighted section or suggests additional words or phrases that will clarify the story.
Green Bolded … this indicates words or phrases that have been moved to another paragraph, scene, or chapter to re-sequence the timing for cause and effect.
RED BOLDED CAPS … questions to the author about the story.
If your writers group has developed a system of critiquing clues, I’d love to hear about it!
Writers groups are precious… treat them with care!
Debi Graham-Leard 