{"id":8803,"date":"2022-09-09T22:09:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T02:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8803"},"modified":"2022-09-09T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T02:09:54","slug":"all-about-give-and-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/all-about-give-and-take\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Give and Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>A member of our <a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tag\/critique\/\">critique group<\/a> has sent pages out, and we&#8217;re very excited to read their material. It&#8217;s great to have something to analyze besides our own words once in a while.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious way you benefit from being part of a critique group is that you have extra sets of eyes on your pages. Getting feedback about your work is crucial. But, you can also learn a lot from being the one providing the feedback, if you put forth the effort to do a quality job of it.<\/p>\n<p>Good critique isn&#8217;t proofreading. It gives the author a map of where their words took you at each stage of the journey, where you felt different emotions, when you had felt like the logic didn&#8217;t add up, which moments were your favorites. Why you love (or love to hate) the characters. And by articulating these thoughts about another&#8217;s manuscript, you&#8217;re sharpening tools for use in your own writing.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a critique group? Use the comments to tell us what you like best about belonging to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of our critique group has sent pages out, and we&#8217;re very excited to read their material. It&#8217;s great to have something to analyze besides our own words once in a while. The obvious way you benefit from being part of a critique group is that you have extra sets of eyes on your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,527],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brainstorming-inspiration","category-composition-progress","tag-critique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8805,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions\/8805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}