I’m having a lot of trouble getting into It. An old friend of mine said it was the scariest book of his that he ever read, but I just can’t seem to keep my eyes on it, and I’m about 25% through it. I can usually read about 90 pages on a good day, but my max so far has been about 30. It seems to be having a lot of trouble getting into the story and focusing on it. It’s just been a bunch of introducing of characters, flashbacks to a childhood I can’t relate to, and killing a kid or two. No one’s really met up yet (formed…
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Story: Missing for five weeks
I’m a member of the Critters web site, which is a critque/workshop site for SF/F/H writing. So far it’s the most decent site I’ve seen (I was previously on Zoetrope, but wasn’t getting enough responses, and was limited in what I could submit). I know a lot of us critcize how it’s like a 5% success rate on getting published, but reading some of these things, I can see why. In the four or five weeks, I’ve crtiqued 9 stories, and only one was of real publishable quality. It’s just that they don’t know how to write, I haven’t run into any that have real grammar, spelling, or such problems,…