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Vickie McDonough on the value of critique groups:

I can say without a doubt that I’m published today because of the help I’ve received from my critique group partners. They’ve encouraged me when I wanted to give up on writing. They taught me to show, not tell. I learned point of view from them, and they’ve become my friends. Most of my experience with critique groups has been positive, but that wasn’t always the case.

Especially helpful are Vickie’s list of the key things you want critiquers to look for in your manuscript.

Read full article at the Spirit-Led Writer

For those of you lucky enough to be on a Mac, here is a great Mac ‘service’ that you can install, that gives you many new and useful text formatting options in a variety of applications, including MS Word. Features:

Reformat, Remove line endings/multiple spaces/quotes, Trim line beginnings/line endings/lines, Sort lines ascending/descending, Shift left/light, Initial caps of words/sentences, All caps & lowercase, Mac/Windows/Unix line endings, Rotate 13, Straight/Smart Quotes, Encode/Decode tabs, Insert date/date & time/time/contents of path, Speak native/german text, Statistics.

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