Crits Wanted

[two_star]

Well, I have a second draft of the story I wrote last summer, and could use critiques. I'll trade beta reading duties or any other reasonable favor that requires a little time and no money.

The story is sociological SF / chyk lit, sorta, in a space opera setting. 3900 words.

I'm thinking of trying critters.org too. (OWW seems to have a better

Comments

[cissa]

I'll read it- b8ut please do let me know what you'5re interested in in the way of feedback/ Misspellings (I am not all that good at those)? Misuse of words/names? Plot lacunae (to the best of my perception)?

[two_star]

I'm mostly interested hearing about what's confusing, where the exposition seems too heavy-handed, whether characters and plot are reasonable. But also whatever sticks out at you. Shall I send it to the address in your profile?

[cissa]

You can send it directly to either afisher AT pixelations DOT com, or afisher AT afmetalsmith DOT com. Please let me know if there's a deadline, and I'll try to meet it.

That's the sort of commenting i can probably do OK. I don't mind being dumped into a new world and having to figure out how it works- so people who want to understand everything ASAP would not be well-reflected here. (Of course, I'd think that would require more info-dumps than are probably fun to read...)

Anyway- I'll do my best here. I am a pretty old hand at the sf/f reading, so my perspective will skew that way, for good or not. :P I( do love the genre9s), though, so it's not like I'm burned out there even though I've been reading it/them by preference for probably 40 years now. (Eep! I am old!) And i really like experimental, at least of some ilks. :)

ETA: also, I typed my former comment on my laptop, which is not all that great about accurately registering my admittedly somewhat awful typing. My apologies! I really CAN spell, and often even type, accurately.