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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
I think workshops could be much more useful than a review.But reviews are customers..
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I haven't ever done a workshop or critique group, but to be honest, I tend to avoid them like the plague. I don't find the comments of other writers useful until they're seasoned enough to have gotten over the 'must follow the rules' thing, and the writers' jargon. <--- I know that sounds really snotty, I'm not implying I'm a seasoned writer by any means - but I get irritated by stock-standard 'you put in an adverb!' and 'you've mixed up your tropes!' type comments, because I do tend to break a lot of the rules, deliberately and (sometimes) carefully. I can generally pick the reviews written by newer writers who've read all the books
