WIP Diagnostic: Is This Working? A Closer Look at an SF Prologue

Critique By Maria D'Marco

WIP Diagnostics is a weekly column that studies a snippet of a work in progress for specific issues. Readers are encouraged to send in work with questions, and we diagnose it on the site. It’s part critique, part example, and designed to help the submitter as well as anyone else having a similar problem.

If you're interested in submitting to WIP Diagnostics, please check out these guidelines. 

Submissions currently in the queue: Two

Please Note: As of today, critique slots are booked through March 14.

This week’s questions:

1. Does the prologue draw you in?

2. Does the flashback work?

3. Do you understand what his problem is?

4. Do you get a sense of his character/is the character voice working?

5. Are there places I'm telling when I'd be better off showing?

Market/Genre: Science Fiction

On to the diagnosis…

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