WIP Diagnostic: Is This Working? A Closer Look at a Short Story Opening Page

Critique by Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy

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.

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This week’s questions:

1. Does it draw you in?

2. Would you want to know more about Jeff and his goal to reach Abby?

3. Also, is the specific mention of Biosphere 2 and Celebration, FL helpful to understanding the type of town that Nathan Stotfold created or confusing?

Market/Genre: Short Story

On to the diagnosis…

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