Why do some inline crits become frozen?
Inline critiques differ from other critique types in that they are connected to the story they are written into. If the story is revised that connection might be broken and the critique is no longer valid in the story’s context. This also happens if the story is deleted. To preserve the integrity of the critique the system severs the connection between the critique and the story by inserting the beginning (first 100 letters or so) of the actual critted paragraphs into the critique and so the critique becomes Frozen. If you take a look at a frozen inline critique you’ll see that each critiqued paragraph consists of a few words followed by a “…”. Each paragraph that has not been critiqued is replaced with a single “.”.
