Criticism Required!

Hello everyone, hope the writing's going well. I'd really appreciate it if you could give me some feedback and criticism on an Invisible Man story I'm working on for Crumey. It's been changed and re-edited so much that it's now a completely different story to the one I read out in class and I was just wondering if the new direction I was taking it in worked. It's called 'The Partial Man' (bit of a giveaway there) and there's an extract of it on my blog:

http://tooclosecartoons.blogspot.com

Thanks!

Be Fearless

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.”

Stephen King, On Writing

agents, manuscripts, and more

If you haven't all ready had a look at the Mslexia site, this is a clear cut, helpful page about agents, manuscript formating, publisher's jargon and more.

http://www.mslexia.co.uk/writerskit/writerskit.html

For Crumey...

So, seen as I didn't get a chance to read it out in class (and I know how you were all DYING to hear it... ;) ) here is the beginning of what I will probably hand in for Prose 2. I've written more of it, but it is by no means finished.

When you've read it I'll let you know where the rest of the story goes :)

Thanks for all your comments/criticism.

Help Please

I know this is very short notice, but if there is anyone alive out there...if anyone can hear me...please have a look at this story I'm turning in tomorrow for Creative Writing and Psychology!!! I'm beginning to lose my mind writing about people who lose their minds... does the story make sense?

STORY

Get off your arses and EXERCISE!

Found this list of writing exercises, a lot of which could be really fun and helpful.

Personally, I'm looking forward to doing #48... ;)

Just found an astoundingly brilliant website called www.writerswrite.com which has a veritable ton and a half of good stuff. I'm still checking all of it out, but at first glance it looks like it has everything, and I mean everything, that might help us in our writing careers. There are some very interesting articles that cover all parts of publication and beyond. It also has some fairly good interviews with famous authors too. So don't just sit here reading this; you should have clicked on that link long ago!

All the best,

Rob