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Twelve Years Behind the Judge's Table (opens the original)
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DAY 17 · THE JUDGE’S EYETwelve Years Behind the Judge’s TableThe first time I sat behind a judge’s table, I thought I knew what I was doing.I had read. I had written. I had opinions about what made a book good. I had a framework, borrowed from the critical vocabulary I had accumulated, for evaluating the things that seemed most obviously evaluable: craft, structure, voice, originality.What I did not have was the thing that fourteen years of judging more than 3,000 manuscripts across fifteen genr
The First Time Behind the Judge's Table (opens the original)
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The Back Cover Copy Test (opens the original)
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Use Contest Feedback to Improve Your Manuscript (opens the original)
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The Manuscript Soup, Part Three: Knowing When It Is Ready (opens the original)
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