I am always looking for ‘betterment’ articles because my main writing focus is stories for children but I want to write a story they can relate to, taking away a want for another story from my typepad. I am on bookrix.com to hone my skills after having a book published last year. Mandy the Alpha Dog deals with overcoming from birth in a puppy mill, to wrong decision making but eventually becoming – well – Alpha. All my stories have a serious issue addressed but in a humorous fashion as my audience is 7 and up.

My problem is having viable feedback as I am one of the few writers of children’s stories on the site. I have been given some tips which I have implemented and those were the ones that pointed out where I could make it better by doing such and such.

I found that authors who have self worth do not have jealousy problems with helping a ‘newbie’ break into the business while with some other ‘newbie’ authors, they give unfounded criticism because they do not take the character’s foibles into consideration; nor do they give pointers to correction.

Your article, based on a letter to a critique partner, is a good blueprint not only for book critiquing but can be part of any aspect of your life, from training a dog to training a husband and let’s not forget the kids in between.

Like Joanna T said – I am sharing this link.