Mechanics, Narrative, and Description

If you've ever reviewed a story or article where the author was struggling with the mechanics of written English, left you confused about the piece's place and time, or overwhelmed with details, Mechanics, Narrative, and Description is for you.

In this book, long-time critique group leader Ross Lampert (a.k.a. The Critique Doctor) provides detailed, practical articles on how to help you and your critique partners improve your:

- Spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and more

- Narrative, that is, their authorial voice and style, balancing showing and telling, using too many words or too few, continuity problems, etc.

- Description, whether it's vague or too detailed, full of info-dumps of unnecessary detail, provide inconsistent or contradictory details, and so on.

Each article ends with questions you can ask yourself about the piece you're reviewing to identify the exact problem you're seeing and offer the author usable critique.