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8. Yes, I've gotten some useful feedback. Critters there talk about other critique groups and
Fri Jan 2, 2015, 09:41 PM
Jan 2015

how they either get "it's wonderful" or "it's horrible" but nothing useful. It's preferred that submissions for open critique are 3000 words or less, but there's no limit to the number of submissions you make, so long as you earn them. You do that by racking up "karma" points you get from critiquing others' submissions and spending those karma points for your own submission.

Most of my crits have been line edits. I only joined in November and haven't devoted the time to develop a relationship with a like-genre writer so that we can swap books/chapters to allow for storyline/character arc edits. However, that's what I'm learning is the big strength in this site.

I'm Veda Dalsette on that site. Here's a sample of a current thread on the Writing forum.
http://www.scribophile.com/forums/writing/61159/
Not sure if you can see it w/o joining first. They have both free and paid membership.

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