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What Is The Best Place To Find Craft/Critique Partners?

By on November 20, 2013 in Alena Tauriainen, Editing Basics

Are you busy working through MBTWRIMO?

Pretty soon you will have a first draft. Where will you go from there? Where do you find someone who can understand writing and all the necessary components to make a great story?

We’ve tackled that question today.

I’m back with my absolute favorite editors, Edie Melson and Beth K. Vogt.

If you would like to watch this question and answer session, click here.

If it’s easier for you to read, read on!

Where do you find craft/critique partners and what’s the difference?

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Is Editing Ever A Bad Thing?

By on October 30, 2013 in Author Mistakes, Editing Basics

Hi Everyone,

I’m back with two of my favorite editors, Beth K. Vogt and Edie Melson!

So Beth (BKV) and Edie (EGM), here is the first question from our readers:

How much change is too much macro editing? Is editing ever a bad thing?

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What’s Wrong with my manuscript?

By on September 25, 2013 in Alena Tauriainen, Editing Basics

There comes a time in every writer’s life when we face the question: What’s wrong with my manuscript?

“What’s wrong?” is not a bad question. We strive to tell the best story we can. During rewrites, we need to know what’s working – dialogue or Storyworld maybe – but what’s not working can overshadow your moments of brilliance.

Today, MBT Retreats Coordinator Alena Tauriainen and MBT Skills Coach Beth Vogt wrestle with the question What’s wrong with my manuscript?

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High concept? Low concept? I’m so confused…

By on January 14, 2009 in Genre

  BookTherapyGal : Hey Rach! Are you as excited as I am about our new Blog-A-Book Project at MBT? heartlikemary : Yes, I love this idea. BookTherapyGal: I can’t wait to see what the MBT Voices help us come up with.  But, we’ve been hearing all this talk lately about High concept and Low concept books.  What do you think of when you hear those terms? heartlikemary : I think “oh brother, more marketing schmaltz.”  haha   BookTherapyGal: Good point! I mean a good book is a good book, right?  But, maybe there are two types of good books. heartlikemary : yes, a good book is a good book. But high concept to me is a story with high stakes, ones that are easily explained.   BookTherapyGal: High stakes…like global stakes?   The takeover of […]

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