The Hidden Signals Your Novel’s Momentum is Fading — And How to Ignite It Again
Another thing to watch out for when asking for critiques on writing platforms is that they can have ulterior motive, such as needing to “read” enough books to have their own book read or wanting to get it done with quickly so they can, get their ‘payment’ faster, or doing so to collectpoints to unlock thkngs on the site. (On Wattpad you could ask cridics on there to give 1-3 chapters a critique and in return read their book, leave a comment and follow them.)
While this isn’t a big deal,and often work out great, a few years later on that site I started to see a pattern emerging. I’d ask for help, get some chapters critiqued and then go edit. Well, They’d come back,and rave at how much the edit fixed the mistakes. Yay, right? That went into the mud pit fast. I started to see almost carbon copys of the critiques that other cridics had left from before, (some years old!) saying I need to do this, there was a mistake here and such.
