New Feature: Advanced Critiques
September 7th, 2007 by Nate in
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The Advanced Critiques forum (located under Misc. Work in the Literary Forum Index) is the latest addition to YWS and is an experimental forum. If it doesn’t do well, then it’ll get kicked. If it does do well, then it stays.
The new forum is for stories over 5,000 words; meaning that they are too long to receive a proper critique in other areas of YWS. Critiquers will be able to download your work onto their computer, edit it, then upload the revised work back to YWS. If you ask for an advanced critique, then you are absolutely required to do the same for others who ask.
We’ll see if this works out or not! Check out this thread for more information:
September 7th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Wow! Sounds cool! Definitely a future project for a rainy Saturday.
If it stays, there’ll probably be a boom after November.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Yeah, it sounds good. I should imagine that once the ball gets rolling, everyone will want to give it a go!
September 7th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Wow! I just looked through the forum, and it looks amazing! I hope you don’t kick it! Can’t wait till someone posts there (and since all the other sentences ended with exclamation points, this one must too )!
September 7th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Wow, sounds great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 7th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
I’ve already posted a majority of my novel in the normal forums.
It seems that this will only be accesible to those who are just beginning a novel.
September 7th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Or you could just repost…
September 7th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
That’s true.
September 8th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
If we’ve already started posting a novel in the fiction section, we’re not OBLIGATED to post it in the new section, right? I would rather finish up my current novel in the fantasy section and then post my next “major work” in the advanced critiques place…
September 9th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Of course not Lyndsey! If you want to serialize your novel (that is, post it chapter by chapter) then the regular forums are definitely the most appropriate place. Unfortunately, though, if your work is too long, people tend to just skim it and the critiques actually end up being shorter than usual.
This forum gives you a place to post your novel in its entirety and to have people critique it much as they would if it were available on paper right in front of them.
September 9th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Question…I have finished the first draft of my novel, but not all of it’s typed on the computer yet (I get limited time on the computer). I have approximately three chapters finished on the computer…would that be enough for a first post? I would add more as I got it done (I’m currently writing the second draft by hand because of the limited computer time).