If you don’t have someone to at least bounce ideas off of, you need to get them, stat. A good critique partner won’t try to write you book, but they won’t hesitate to say a scene didn’t work. A good critique partner will also help you figure out what’s wrong with the scene (or scenes) and brainstorm ideas to fix it. Without a critique partner, I wouldn’t have known anything was wrong. I’ve read the book so many times my mind processes things as though they’re perfect. I’m so thankful she was there to say “this isn’t working.”

As for my #ROW goals, I’m happy with how the week turned out. I’ve been able to edit three chapters of Light and Dark and work through some important issues. I also wrote 1000 words of a new scene today.

The edits are moving along nicely. If I stay at this pace, I should have the first round done by my goal of Sept. 19.

I also kept up with my blog posts and definitely RT’d a lot of blogs. I was able to spend some time commenting as well.

This next week is going to be shortened as we are going out of town on Wednesday afternoon, but I hope to get in my blogs and through another chapter before we leave.

How did your #ROW80 week go?

And if you haven’t joined the challenge, you should. More about it here.