Catching up with Teresa! This time – On Critique Partners
During my journey to getting published there have been a few people that have helped me with my writing. They are my critique partners, I’ve had a few different ones over the year but the ones that have helped me the most have been with me the longest and while many of them have busy lives and can’t help as much as they once did they were the ones that truly got where the story was going and where I needed help.
Some of my critique partners are your very own Dolls, two of our Dolls. In fact, Noa and Mona have been great critique partners along with other friends. I haven’t found others as good as the first set of critique partners which sucks because one of the keys to making sure you have a great manuscript is making sure you have great critique partners. When all is said and done your manuscript is the most important thing.
Now don’t get me wrong I’m not saying you have to have critique partners to make your manuscript work, you don’t. There are authors out there that don’t use them at all, but there are others that live by them. For me, and my dyslexia, having critique partners helps when I can’t find issues that I know are there, like my T-speech, that’s normally in everything I write.
Sometimes just reading my manuscript out loud doesn’t help which is why I loved having critique partners I could trust and that understood my issues. It’s hard finding the right partners and sometimes you might go through a few before you find the right match. And if life gets in the way of the group you have to keep in touch with them and maybe from time to time they can help you out. But keep looking in the mean time for others that may work for you as well.
~Teresa
