What is the critique system like?
It’s like an armadillo, only larger and less literal. Well, OK, it’s not really like that. Here’s how it works: whenever a member has a work to be critiqued, that person goes to our critique page and uploads the piece. It then becomes immediately available in our critique system, until such time as the member or an admin takes it down (i.e., up to a month after it was posted). In the meantime, any Codex member can go to the Critique page and click a link to have the piece e-mailed to the address in her or his profile. On the critique page, the writer’s critique stats are posted in terms of credits given and received. Critique credits are allotted as follows: .5 credits for 1,000 words or less, and other than that 1 credit per 10,000 words, rounding up. This system allows us to equitably track critique participation for anything from flash fiction to novel series. Participation in the Spotlight is also included. In any case, there’s no critique requirement per se. Participants are stron
