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Excerpt Critique: “Morning After,” Horror

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Please welcome today’s anonymous aspiring author, ready for a peer critique. Take a moment to read the excerpt, then please leave some thoughtful feedback in the comment section below. If you are a writer whose excerpt has appeared anonymously on Write It Sideways, and now you’d like your name to appear on your piece, please contact

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7 Steps to Taming Your NaNoWriMo Manuscript

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Today’s post is written by Mercia Dragonslayer, a semi-finalist in the Write It Sideways regular contributor search. Thanks, Mercia! With November (National Novel Writing Month) well behind us, thousands of writers are wondering what, exactly, they want to do with their novel. Some may order a proof copy from a self-publishing company and proudly show it

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Excerpt Critique: “A Home on Rosy Mountain”

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Please welcome today’s aspiring author, Cary Brunswick, ready for a peer critique. Take a moment to read the excerpt, then please leave some thoughtful feedback in the comment section below. If you are a writer whose excerpt has appeared anonymously on Write It Sideways, and now you’d like your name to appear on your piece,

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Excerpt Critique: “It’s Not Me,” YA Horror

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Please welcome today’s anonymous aspiring author, ready for a peer critique. Take a moment to read the excerpt, then please leave some thoughtful feedback in the comment section below. If you are a writer whose excerpt has appeared anonymously on Write It Sideways, and now you’d like your name to appear on your piece, please contact

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Excerpt Critique: “A Good Day,” Literary Fiction

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Please welcome today’s anonymous aspiring author, ready for a peer critique. Take a moment to read the excerpt, then please leave some thoughtful feedback in the comment section below. Note: If you are a writer whose excerpt has appeared anonymously on Write It Sideways, and now you’d like your name to appear on your piece,

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5 Keys to Giving Constructive Writing Critiques

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I have a friend who writes. Though we get together often and talk about our writing, we haven’t exchanged pieces of writing for feedback until recently. Last time we got together for coffee, the friend handed me her novel manuscript, and I handed her a short story (because my novel isn’t complete). Although I haven’t

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