A Good Critique, Going in The Right Direction
| 27 September 2011
Had my critique from my local group. They like the changes of meeting Pete Freeman from the Seastead Project but they didn't much like the multiple POVs. I, too have trouble with that. They also think the POV is best left with Arda since Scotty is in her head. I think so, too.
So now I plunge on. My goal is to finish the rewrites by next meeting, probably a week early, YIIKES, and then send it off to Alien Q. I know, small potatoes, but I want to get started and am not sure of how I stack up.
Tonight is my reading group at the library. We read Slan. I really like that book, the first SciFi that I read, published in 1946 in Wisconsin. How did that get through? According to SCIENCE FICTION: WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT it really all started with the publishing of Amazing (a magazine) by Hugo Gernsback in April 1926. Heinlein published his first book in 1947, who I always think of as SciFi. Anyway, this is a quality novel. Evidently, he has written quite a bit. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/v/a-e-van-vogt/ Have to check him out.
At this meeting will be (I hope) a woman who has gone to many World SciFi Conventions and gave me as much inside info as she could think of for my first journey.
Well, I am going to sign off and get ready for my day. Wish me luck on this next round of writing.
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