How To Critique Creative Writing

A Creative Writing Guide

Learn how to critique creative writing and justify your opinions from an analysis of the work.

Essential tips for readers writing reviews or authors trying to improve their novels.

This unique, concise guide will give you advice on capturing your impressions and then, more importantly, the methods to justify them by a systematic examination of the composition of the writing, with examples. Broken into sections, it provides a structured approach to understanding why a story works... or doesn't:

• Read-through and impressions
• High-level analysis: opening, plot, character, dialogue, pace & style
• Low-level analysis: chapter-paragraph-sentence structure Includes advice on how to present your critique.

Best selling author Norman Turrell compiles his experience from years of critiquing and running critique groups.