Introduction

Welcome!

I have created this post in response to the success I’ve had at several workshops and conferences with what at first seemed to me a brave experiment: to see how much useful critical commentary and helpful (to the author) feedback could be extracted from just a single page—the first page—of a work-in-progress.

The first time I performed this experiment was at the New York Round Table Writer’s Conference, at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen Library in Manhattan. I asked par...