Again, beta-reading

[lizvogel]

A fine round-up of essential principles: Nathan Bransford's Ten Commandments for Editing Someone's Work. "Editing" in this case applies to beta-reading or critiquing or whatever you care to call it when somebody looks over your writing with the avowed intent of helping you make it better.

As usual, Bransford spells out what should be self-evident with clarity, insight, and his usual laid-back wit. Words cannot express how much better my ex-writing group would have been had the members embraced these concepts, especially 1, 3, 6, and 9.