Are you looking for honest constructive feedback on your writes or are you just happy to post your writing? Anybody interested in being involved in offering critiques? I have found as I offer critiques, I am learning more about writing and so helps with my own writing.

I would love honest feedback. What's the point if I don't learn right? So please, I welcome them.

I wonder if there's a way to set up a critique-type situation here--a place to post stuff we specifically want feedback on. A simple blog might not be something we care to have critiqued, but a chapter from a work in progress, absolutely! I'm a firm believer in the critique process. I wouldn't be published if it weren't for that.

I actually belong to a critique group. There are several different kinds on Yahoo. Some cater to the e-book boom, and some cater to different genre with stricter rules. It has been an awesome experience to get so many points of view on my writing. I have even subbed a blog post for a critique before. (They thought it was funny, but my natural style made it seem over written, as if I had lost my head in a thesaurus.) It is great to get feed back, and I have learned a lot. But there is a drawback in those many points of view: trying to please everyone, some, who really should not be sitting in the editor seat. ---I am just saying. I do think that for writing to improve, honest, intelligent, feedback is needed. I have dreams of some day going to Clarion Writers Workshop. But that, alas, may never come to pass. Writing contests are also a good way to improve writing, because entries usually receive critiques by published authors or working editors in their chose genre.

Hey, look at me. I talk like I know something. Ha! (Not true. Do not think me to be an intelligent person who can spell.)

Critiques are essential to getting your foot in the publishing door! I'm in a weekly critique group, and I have a circle of readers I pass my manuscripts to.

So, if the interest is there, how do we get it going? Let's do this.

hello - I'd be interested too. If I may. But, sorry, can't help AT ALL with how to set it all up - I'm a complete newbie here and am stil struggling just to find my way around....

I would be interested, as long as the group is protected by proprietary rights like the ones on Yahoo. Does anyone know if it would be?

I would also be interested. Like Becky James, I would have no clue about setting something like this up. However, if anyone is willing to contribute in a team effort, I think we could all benefit from critiques. It never hurts to practice.

I would welcome critiques, and have even asked a regular commenter or two to tell me if something wasn't working or left him or her puzzled. In both cases, the person stopped commenting. I'd beg for someone to say what he or she thought, if begging would do the trick. There's no need to spare my feelings or be polite. I appreciate anyone who even reads my writing. Once in a while is great. Regularly? If you read what I write regularly, you've giving me what I've always wanted.