Tiers of Critique

A series of lessons on how to give helpful critique to others writing

Tier 2 – Prose

How you describe a room or a character is vital. The moment to moment descriptions of objects, surroundings, sounds, smells. These are the brush by which you paint your world

Tier 1 – Spelling

As an amateur writer who runs a writer’s group and constantly seeks out critique, I’ve read innumerable amatuer manuscripts. I remember reading one amateur script where each page had at least 5 spelling errors. It felt like being a job interviewer, and the interviewee turns up only in stained underwear, and spoke to me between…

Two minutes on Critique

As with all things in life, the most important thing is not the how, but the why. Giving Why do we give critique? To help make a piece the best it can be. The world needs art, and is better for it. If the piece is as good as it can be, then you’ve genuinely…