[ProjectPantlatz]

Hello.
Not sure if I've come to the right place. I have started a project that i want to publish eventually. But since I'm an under-confident noob when it comes to this, I am looking for professional or experienced SF writers/enthusiasts who would be willing to review my work to help me along, to an extent.

I have joined a fiction writers group in my locality, and got in contact with a member who is SF enthusiast. Although he has given me some very good suggestions on how to improve my story and where to start it, he has for reasons he has not given me, limited his feedback.

If I have come to wrong place, please link me to another community that specializes in what I'm looking for - if there is one.

Thank you in advance...

-PP

[tmso]

Keep in mind, if you want to get feedback, you need to give feedback (or pay someone).

We used to have a Workshop going, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. There are MANY online writer workshops that you can join, and all require that you critique other writer's works. Here's a smattering of 'em that I know folks here on this forum use:

http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30640
http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16002&page=175
http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32143

Those three are to threads on this forum that talk about what you are looking for.

Good luck!

[ProjectPantlatz]

There are MANY online writer workshops that you can join, and all require that you critique other writer's works.

Really? Well, I feel that at this point, I am too much of a beginner to review and critic the works of others'.. I'm winning to pay someone who could make an exception to that?

[tmso]

Really? Well, I feel that at this point, I am too much of a beginner to review and critic the works of others'

Everyone was a beginner (or is, if you want to get metaphysical and philosophical ;) ). You learn a tremendous amount by tearing apart other writer's writing. Though, it is a good idea to have some basics learned before jumping into a critique group. You can find plenty of guides out there on how to critique (here's one: http://www.crayne.com/howcrit.html).

I'm winning to pay someone who could make an exception to that?

Well, this is tricky. Would it be better for you to take a class prior to hiring someone like a writing coach or an editor?

[TOCoder]

I'll give you my 2 cents... for what its worth. My background is I've completed one novel and am self publishing it.

When writing your book, don't worry about what you've written... worry about what you are going to write next. Once you've completed your first draft, then its time for rewrites, edits and more rewrites.

It took me about 8 months to write my first draft and a 2 1/2 years to finish it (I have a family and house that takes up a lot of my time). Most of it was learning how to write by studying other books... and I even took a class. It was the best experience of my life and I can't wait to write my second novel. But my learning is nowhere near complete as I've found out (from previous info from tmso - thanks by the way) about joining sites like goodreads and librarything where I am now reading and reviewing other authors. This is turning out to be another fantastic learning experience.

I have also requested reviews from some independent review sites and hopefully, once I'm more established on some of these reader sites I mentioned above, I can start asking for reviews of my own work. Even though I believe my novel is great (did I mention that it really helps to be delusional), my second will be many time better.

So in my opinion, don't worry about reviews of your partials... just keep writing. The more you write, the better you get. Eventually you plateau a bit... then start looking for a reviewer - and don't forget to be reviewing other works.

Hope this helps a bit.