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Mystery Cove Roundtable

by Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

Rated: E · Message Forum · Mystery · #2309306

Mystery Cove

DRAFT
NOT READY FOR USERS
ALL THAT IT NEEDS TO BE ACTIVE IS A MODERATOR
(and authors, of course)

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This is where Affilates who write mysteries can meet and discuss their works-in-progress..

The primary purpose of the fourm is to provide a roundtable for Affiliates to exchange peer-to-peer reviews.

While this is designed designed as a roundtable rather than a full workshop, it does share some of important features with a workshop.. Members can post a public list of items for which they are seeking reviews. Other members can see and review these items. Members can develop review partnerships with sympatico members. Roundtable participants can discuss the craft and art of writing. A feature of this roundtable is that the author's list of review requests is self-managed--once it's set up, Affiliates can add, subtract, or otherwise modify this list.

This is supposed to be an excbange. That means that if you post here asking for reviews, we also expect that you will do reviews of posted items. You don't have to review everyone, but you should strive for some balance between the reviews you recieve and the reviews you give.

In our experience, review exchanges of this type sometimes result in authors finding critique partners--another author with whom they have a particular rapport. These can develop into long-term relationships and, sometimes, even collaborations. When this happens, it's an awesome experience for the authors involved. Everytime you review someone on here, keep in mind that it could be the first step in such a relationship. The founders of the Crossroads Author Consortium have been partners of this type for over fifteen years.

We encourage reviewers to post copies of their reviews to the forum, unless the author has requested they not do so. Posting copies makes the Roundtable a learning tool as well as a launchpad for discussions. This is an important feature of a full-feldged writing workshop.

While we we encourage such posting, authors need to remember that this forum is open to all Affiliates. In fact, that's the main difference between Consortium roundtables and a workshop. Ordinarily, a workshop is a small, select group of authors--usually fewer than a dozen--who share works and critques with each other. Publishsers encourage this kind of activity, and it doesn't jeopardize an author's ability to sell first rights to their work since it's not been published to a general readership. Right now, the Constortium membership is small enough to qualify as a workshop, but that won't always be the case. As the Consortium grows, authors should consider whether or not to permit such posting of reivews in any Consortium roundtable.

Authors desiring a true workshop experience should consdier applying to "About Crosstimbers Novel Workshop" or any other genuine workshop on Writing.com that is closed to larger groups.

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Each author initiates, via the

an individual WORKSHOP LINKS FILE . This file contains a list of the novels and chapters the author wishes to have reviewed. The workshop manager will create the file using the information the author provides on the form.

Authors can use the form to update or otherwise revise the links on their workshop links file. Alternatively, they can request a link to that file. If you know the link, you can edit your file since all full Workshop memebers have edit access to to the workshop links files. Be careful, though! The workship links files are inserted directly into the Workshop page via the {insert:####} WritingML tag. Errors in an individual workshop links file can break the page, so be sure you don't have any errors such as unclosed WritingML tags.

Each WORKSHOP LINKS FILE.contains:

Your preferred display name (this is how your listing will appear in the roundtable forum);

A link to your WDC userID, {user:<YOUR ID>}; and

A list of links to the novels and chapters that you wish to have reviewed.

The form asks for other information, but the only required element is the list of links to the items you want reviewed. If you do not include your preferred display name , the manager will use your WDC handle by default.

Of course, workshop members need to be able to read your items. So, for example, item permissions could be set to PUBLIC or to the workshop group "Crosstimbers Novel Workshop Group" . Alternatively, if you instead choose to use a passcode, you could include it in the WORKSHOP LINKS FILE or include a note that instructs potential reviewers to ask you for it. If you want to include a note to ask for passcode, please use the "special instructions" sectipn of the form.

Any form of WDC link to your items is acceptable, although the b-item format provides additional information to potential reviewers. If you are posting to a Book Entry, you might consider also including a link to the Book, since the Book Entry formats don't provide very much information.

The form asks for things like genre or a teaser which can help you get reviews, but these are not required.

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Questions or comments? Contact one of the Roundtable Managers:
Carol St. Ann 20yrs (06-26)

Max Griffin 🏳️‍🌈

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