SFR Brigade

Several members mentioned interest in forming critique groups or finding critique partners or beta readers who write SFR and understand the subgenre.

If you're interested in exploring this idea, please either comment here, message me through this site, or email me at Lgreen2162 (at) aol (dot) com.  I need an idea of how many writers would like to participate.

I would be interested in receiving and giving crits.  I belong to a couple other crit groups, but one is mostly paranormal, and the other is for scripts.  Having one manuscript critiqued by mostly paranormal writers, no one caught the fact that my alien spoke English.  An editor pointed it out and proceeded to give me a history lesson on the English language!

I need all the help I can get.

Ester

I would be interested, definitely.

Brand new member here jumping in.  I would definitely be interested.  I have one crit group but only one of the members really gives me any feedback.  And no one else in the group reads or writes SFR.

Thanks for your responses, all. 

There are a couple of ways we could go.  One is to use the CritiqueCircle website which allows for inline and classic critiques.  A few of us already know the ropes and could help get you set up.  I believe a free membership allows you to set up a private queue (I'd better check to be sure) so you could each set up a queue, invite each other, and cross-critique.  I think you can have up to 8 members in a standard private queue.  Only other members you invite can see your work, and because CC requires a password to access the site, your work is not considered "published" on the internet. 

That's one idea  If you'd like to check out CC here's the link:

http://www.critiquecircle.com    (My user name is Aspiration.)

Another way would be a straight exchange of chapters via the internet for cross-critiquing. 

Any thoughts?

Laurie,

I signed up for CC. I'm Onemoretim. I have no idea what I was thinking of with that username! lol. It looks like an interesting site and I'm looking for CPs.

Thank you for your suggestions, Laurie.  I'm not familiar with Critique Circle.  However, I'd be willing to give it a try.  A straight exchange of manuscripts would also be fine with me.  And I'm familiar with that.

Currently I'm writing a science fiction/romance/adventure manuscript.  I'm incorporating a good deal of science into it, especially astronomy, geology, and biology.  But not much technological detail; it's set so far into the future that the technology wouldn't make any sense to contemporary readers.

If this sounds like the sort of thing any of you would like to critique, and you'd like me to go over your manuscript, please contact me.  Please note that I have two degrees in English; I can check your manuscripts for grammar, style, and composition.  Spelling too, but I assume your works have already gone through a spellcheck.

My only request is that you NOT send me any of the following: 

• works in the subgenres of erotic or inspirational fiction
• works that revolve around a marriage of convenience or abduction
• works in which a protagonist is a vampire, werewolf, or demon

Also, members on Facebook are welcome to friend me.  My FB URL is www.facebook.com/maryannelanders

Good luck with your writing!

Leslie has joined CC and her first chapter is coming up soon for anyone who'd like to give her a critique.  Joining CC at the basic level is free, you just have to register a user name because the site is password protected (which is a very good thing).

We've got an active discussion started for Brigaders, so come join in.  Here's the link to CritiqueCircle (or CC, for short):  http://www.critiquecircle.com

My user name is Aspiration.  If you need to ask any questions about how things work, I usually sign on once or twice a day so send me a message or post in the CC public forum under:

Genres

     Romance and Women's Fiction

           SFR Brigade chat

Thanks for the plug Laurie!  

Yep A Fault in Time first scene of chapter one comes up for review, um tomorrow I think in the Newbie Queue.

I now have the ability on CC to create a novel and populate it with chapters. Although Id did not do that for this first scene. I figure I'll post the whole first chapter again. This was just a test run.   I really like being able to create a novel structure in the site to tie the chapters together.  I've also done a few crits now and like the critting tools a lot. Great site thanks for suggesting it.

Leslie

Onemoretim on CC.

I do apologize for being late with suggestions on crit groups. It looks like you have it going now with CC. I don't do that one, so I can't comment on it. 

There is also another way to have a private critique group. Open up a yahoo group (very easy to do) and make it invitation only private, so only members serious about critiquing or having a critique done can enter and see others work. Also, authors work could either be exchanged via the files on the yahoo group or by private emails. This venue worked so well for me that I wanted to share the idea here. I'm still involved with three yahoo crit groups, though I'm not nearly as active now that I have publishing contracts and editors to deal with, still those authors are very helpful. You can become very close this way. If you do decide on this, it could be a SFR Critique Group (that name or something similar) I really like yahoo for this. But you seem to be doing okay in CC. So maybe that works for those here who are interested.

Just another suggestion to ponder for creating a critique group for SFR members. 

Kaye

I do apologize for being late with suggestions on crit groups. It looks like you have it going now with CC. I don't do that one, so I can't comment on it. 

There is also another way to have a private critique group. Open up a yahoo group (very easy to do) and make it invitation only private, so only members serious about critiquing or having a critique done can enter and see others work. Also, authors work could either be exchanged via the files on the yahoo group or by private emails. This venue worked so well for me that I wanted to share the idea here. I'm still involved with three yahoo crit groups, though I'm not nearly as active now that I have publishing contracts and editors to deal with, still those authors are very helpful. You can become very close this way. If you do decide on this, it could be a SFR Critique Group (that name or something similar) I really like yahoo for this. But you seem to be doing okay in CC. So maybe that works for those here who are interested.

Just another suggestion to ponder for creating a critique group for SFR members. 

Kaye

I write 'dirty'--meaning I don't edit until the entire first draft is done--so I don't do chapter by chapter critiques. I find if I pause to edit I lose the story  and stall out for awhile. I do like to get a beta read when I'm nearly ready to submit--I would be happy to trade beta reads with another writer.

I'm on the lookout for a new critique group. I writer science fiction. The groups I'm involved with are two heavily weighted toward paranormal. I don't mind paranormal but I'm seaking critique partners who will critique physical plausibility and who will accept critique of the same. Science fiction folks do pick up on details that other types of readers miss.

I've signed up. My user name is Failte2000.  I haven't submitted anything or critiqued anything yet. I'm still trying to figure the site out. 

Stephanie,

I just signed up for CC. Let me know when you submit. That goes for all of you. I'm interested in a CC queue for SFR.

Lizzie, what's your CC user name?

Stephanie, I'll drop you a line on CC.