Critiques and reviews are an important part of every writer’s success. There are many helpful responses readers, writers, editors and agents will give you but along with these you’ll often find much of the feedback you receive will be of no use to you. Some suggestions, if followed, could actually prove problematic for your writing’s [...]

Rejection is one vital step on a writer’s journey. It is actually one that is fairly advanced, but any writer who is serious about wanting to be published will, at some point, submit something and be rejected. There is no easy way to handle the sense of failure that looms over these little rejection slips. [...]