Creative Writing/Peer Review
This page may need to be Due to the over-whelming challenge of being pessimistic of one's own work, having peers constructively criticize will help you improve misunderstandings within your work. Sometimes it takes another pair of eyes to see what you missed in your own writing. Please don't get upset by the feedback some people give creative criticism and others give negative criticism, but you will eventually learn by your own mistakes to improve your writing and that requires peer review and feedback from others.
If you are married you could have your spouse peer review your work, this is something Stephen King uses. [1] You could hire someone who is an editor from a freelance web site to peer review your writing and make suggestions. If you are in college you can use the college resources to peer review your work if it is college related.
If you can afford a Word processing program it can check the spelling and grammar, if you cannot afford one many are free such as Openoffice.org, IBM Lotus Symphony, AbiWord, that may be able to help. Note this is not a Peer Review but can help with the spelling and grammar as well as formatting. The old typewriters are great, but a word processor is much better. Once you have corrected your spelling and grammar, you can have another person peer review your work.
Check some of the Wiki web sites for writing help such as The Writing Wiki. Read the articles and start writing short stories in your sandbox user space and then ask for peer reviews to see how you can improve. Never start your own Wiki articles until you understand a Wiki system, the Wiki`s rules and laws, and what type of writing and subjects they cover. Some web sites such as Wikia host a wide variety of Wiki sites on various subjects. One can join any Wiki of any subject they wish to write about and get peer reviews from that Wiki from writing in your sandbox user space. The Wikia Writing Wiki will be of much help for peer reviews.
How to do a peer review will tell you more about the Peer Review process and what to expect.
