Do authors need to send Thank-Yous to critiquers?
Personally, I try to, but in the interest of keeping tempers down about anyone expecting a Thank You note, I have deliberately made thank you’s entirely optional. Feel free to send them, of course, but critiquers should consider themselves thanked by default. And even explicitly so right here: Thanks! Also, don’t forget that half the value of critiquing is how it helps the critiquer improve as a writer, for which I guess thanking yourself would be in order…
