Speculative Fiction Writers Association
An Online Critique Group with Members from Coast to Coast
Noah Wilhelm 
Permit me to paint a picture for you: in an epic fight, your characters have overcome immense peril and defeated the villain. It’s the climax to your story, the work of months, if not years. But you run into a hiccup. Your readers don’t enjoy the scene. They find it …
Red Rising, by Pierce Brown, takes place in a dystopian version of our galaxy, where a dying Earth sent pioneers to terraform the other planets in the solar system and altered their genetics to ensure their success, using hair and eye color to differentiate between the different levels of hierarchy. …