If you start your story well, you can get away with a lot later on.

Readers need to be grounded by the setting and the narrative voice. But if you do this effectively, it buys you a lot of liberty in your storytelling later on.

Brad Pauquette, bestselling author of The Novel Matrix, and Alli Prince, author of Top New Release Copper Lies, critiqued four short stories and novel chapters from The Company’s community of writers.

Listen here or watch the full video on YouTube:

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In this critique, you’ll find invaluable tips and tricks to make your own writing the best that it can be.

You can download these four stories and read them yourself here: https://writers.company/january-28th-procritique-materials-now-available/

Take the time to read the stories and critique them yourself before you listen. Compare your critique to Brad and Alli’s notes to grow in your ability to articulate issues and opportunities in your own writing.

At this live critique session, we discussed:

• “Calvin Loses the Girl” by Scott Morehead





• “Chapter one” by Kinsey Holt





• “Lifesaving Lattes” by Molly McTernan





• “Worldturners” by Kamryn Weaver

Thank you to the brave souls who volunteered their work to be publicly critiqued.

Learn more about our ProCritiques and other events on The Company’s website: https://writers.company/

OTHER LINKS:

• Copper Lies on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42CwCXK





• The Novel Matrix on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3PXexvN





• Fantastical Summer Anthology Project: https://fantasticalsummer.com/





• Become a member of The Company: https://writers.company/membership

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