Here are a few links I find helpful to my own fiction writing pursuits; hopefully, they will help you as both a fiction writer and a peer reviewer:
1. Kurt Vonnegut's Essential Tips for Short Story Writing
2. The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Bonnie Jo Campbell
The Workshop (Do these things before 11/26)
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For each story, I would like you to
comment on one (1) major complication (from our textbook) that you feel must be
addressed, as well as give some advice on how you’d like to see the story revise
this issue. Make a positive suggestion about where you see the story having a
possibility of covering _________.
Of course, make a note in the margins where that major complication
exists.
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For each story, make sure to praise what
you see as the strongest quality of the piece – as well as point to a place in
the story that fulfills that quality.
•
Make no more than three (3) editing marks
– the writer needs to proofread their own work. However, do make a comment
about specific errors you find them repeating. Example: “In
proofing your story, concentrate on using simpler sentences because you have a
lot of run-ons.”
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At the end of the story, make this
comment for each story: “If this was my story, I would have ___________
happen.” Discuss something you would do with the characters or the plot – the
basic narrative arc of the piece.
• This
comment is not so much a critique, but a way of opening up the writer to
different possibilities of what to do with their piece!
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Was the climax predictable? What surprised
you? Give your general reaction to the story’s arc IF you haven’t already done
so.
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Was the diction and dialogue believable?
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Did you like the character’s names?
Characterizations?
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What, from writers like Vonnegut and Campbell, can you pass on specifically to each writer?
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