As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I’m overseas at the moment. My internet connection has been a bit dodgy at times, but I still hope to maintain a regular posting schedule while I’m away.
We’ve now had two fiction excerpts successfully critiqued:
Want to have an anonymous piece of your own writing critiqued by the community here at Write It Sideways?
This time I’m requesting excerpts from works of women’s fiction (including chick-lit), science fiction, and romance.
How to Submit
Submissions open: Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 12 pm EST
Submissions close: Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 12 pm EST
- During this submission period, please send only women’s fiction (including chick-lit), YA/adult science fiction, and YA/adult romance.
- Excerpts should be approximately 250 words long (but don’t stop in the middle of a sentence).
- Paste your excerpt into an email and send it to suzannah [at] writeitsideways [dot] com. Please make sure your paragraphs and dialogue are formatted the way you wish them to appear on the blog.
- Include the working title of your novel/short story, and the genre.
- Please only send one excerpt during a submission period. If your excerpt isn’t used, you can send it again during the next call in your genre. If your excerpt is used, please refrain from submitting a new piece for at least 2 months afterward.
- It is recommended you do not send an excerpt of something you intend to submit for publication or a writing contest. More on that here.
- If I decide to post your excerpt for critique, I will let you know via email. If you don’t hear back from me, please assume your excerpt won’t be used this time around. You’re free to send it again next time.
Rules and Guidelines
- Subscribe. Before you submit a piece of writing for critique, please make sure you’re subscribed to Write It Sideways (by either email or RSS), to ensure you don’t miss your writing being posted.
- Respect. The purpose of this feature is to give encouragement and constructive criticism to aspiring writers. That means feedback should be given with a spirit of helping each other. Any rude or disparaging comments will be deleted.
- Give back. Submit your writing only if you’re willing to give back by critiquing others’ work.
- Polish. Please don’t send unpolished work. Peer-critiques are now a regular feature of Write It Sideways, so there’s plenty of opportunity to submit when your writing is ready.
- Keep it clean. I won’t use any submissions that contain offensive material. Keep them PG.
I’ll read through the excerpts and choose ones I think we can all learn the most from.
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