Ideas for Critique (Exposure Therapy)

As founding members, I'd love to get your ideas on how to best approach critique. Exposure Therapy is my cheeky name for it, but it's sort of accurate too. It's a place to put a vulnerability out there. Let me know in the comments if you have any ideas on how best to approach it. Here's my current vision...

One thing I want to avoid is the barrage of passages that get ignored because there are so many spamming the feed. I want critique to be a bit more focused and clean so no one feels they're being ignored, if that makes sense? On the other end, if someone keeps getting feedback over three weeks, that's not helpful either because most likely they've already addressed the changes they want to make.

I also want to open it up to not just chapter critiques, but concepts, pitch lines, full outlines, marketing/covers, and the parts we really need focused, human help with. What I imagine is that each week – or biweekly – there are one or two new submissions for critique, and then when the time expires, I will remove the those posts and add the new ones in the Critique tab.

Down the line, I imagine live critique sessions where, as a group, we present something, others can give their immediate feedback, and it becomes a useful discussion. I imagine this could be super helpful for fleshing out ideas or even full book concepts.

Whattaya think? Let me know in the comments!

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