Critique Service
How It Works
Critique Service
Critique Service
How It Works
Find out what’s working in your manuscript, what’s not, and how to fix it.
The best person to provide a writing critique is someone with years of experience in the publishing industry. As seasoned editors and/or published authors themselves, our instructors will provide you with an expert writing critique, addressing your strengths, areas to improve, and how to refine your writing for maximum impact. You’ll not only receive information about market needs and trends, but also constructive feedback tailored to help you elevate your manuscript and get it prepared for submission.
It’s essential to receive professional writing feedback from an objective source. Set your manuscript apart from the rest with a writing critique — before submitting it to an editor or agent. Learn more about what our manuscript critique service has to offer.
Take your manuscript to the next level with our manuscript critique service,
offering an in-depth analysis by a publishing industry professional.
You’ll receive professional writing feedback and an objective review of the quality of your manuscript through our manuscript critique service.
An ICL or IFW instructor will provide a thorough writing critique, helping you understand how your characters, voice, plot, dialogue, setting, and style resonate with readers.
In your detailed writing critique, your reviewer will identify strengths and weaknesses in your manuscript through an annotated review.
You’ll receive comments directly in the margins of your story using Word’s Track Changes, and an instructional letter offering in-depth suggestions to help make your manuscript shine.
Ready when you are! It’s always a good idea to submit your manuscript for a professional writing critique sooner rather than later. Getting feedback on an early draft can set you on the right path and save you time in the long run.
Once your reviewer receives your manuscript, you can expect it back with expert insights and guidance in just 2-3 weeks!
Now that I have some feedback about my story, I am determined to continue to work on it. Some of the suggestions were things I had thought about, but not being in this business, honestly, I was confused about where to go next. Giving up was my next option. I don’t have the background to know what to add or what to leave out. This critique was so incredibly helpful and well worth the money. I have renewed motivation!
- Joan Porter
I think that the service is excellent. The suggestions for improvement were exquisitely detailed and on point. I need that! I was so pleased that this section wasn't just glossed over and scrunched down to the minimum. This critique is something I can get a lot of mileage from, for any number of future endeavors.
- Nirdosh Ganske
Manuscript Critique Services FAQs
Constructive feedback through an annotated critique using Word Track Changes, two pages of analysis on what’s working and what’s not, recommendations for how to improve your story structure, setting, characters, plot, dialogue, grammar, and spelling, plus guidance on your next revision! Check out an example of a Critique Service submission here.
The purpose of a critique is to improve the story: to identify overall problems in a manuscript in order to allow the writer to revise in a focused and productive way. When a manuscript is critiqued, it’s an opportunity to find out if your reader is confused, believes your character, and whether your scenes ring true, feel right, and make sense. An ICL/IFW instructor looks at your submission with a professional eye, points out inconsistencies, unnecessary characters, scenes, or dialogue and offers suggestions to make your manuscript shine!
Yes! You are welcome to submit as many manuscripts as you have ready for critique.
We advise you to submit your manuscript for a professional critique sooner than later. It’s best to have an early draft revised, to set you on the right path! If you submit the first fifty pages, the feedback you receive will help determine how much work you need to do on your story structure, setting, characters, plot, dialogue, and writing style.
Click any of the Manuscript Critique Service offerings listed above—depending on your preferred audience, genre, and word count. Once you make a selection, you’ll be taken to our online bookstore. Add the critique offering of your choice to the shopping cart. We’ll follow up immediately with directions and a form to submit your manuscript.
Once you submit, your critiquer will make their edits and get your reviewed manuscript back to you within 2-3 weeks.
One of our instructors at the Institute. You can check out their stories and all of their great work here
No worries! Send us an email at info@instituteforwriters.com or give us a call at (800) 243-9645 with any questions. We’re happy to help you through your potential submission and find the critique offering that best fits your needs.
Not a problem. Send us an email at info@instituteforwriters.com or call us at (800) 243-9645 to discuss pricing.
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