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Preparing a Submission for a Critique Group Session

June 27, 2020May 11, 2020 by R. C. Beckett

Material submitted to a critique group is somewhere between a first draft and the final draft and may be an entire short story or just a few scenes from a novel. On one hand, a true first draft is riddled with grammar and spelling problems, best fixed with a grammar …

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