First of all, I’m not a good fiction writer yet; not good enough to be published, and certainly not qualified for the term “good”. At best I can entertain folks temporarily, but until I actually a) get published in a mag that’s selective about what comes in, and b) I’m not being published as “filler”, I might be able to say “I write decently.” We’re talking places like Clarkesworld, Farrago’s Wainscot, Wheelhouse, etc.

The bar is a little high, as they say.

Second, I think you can learn more if you visit the AbsoluteWrite Forums. Take a look around, read a bunch of threads, learn stuff. There’s a forum called “Share Your Work” there that you can, well, share your work and get critiques from all sorts of folks—many of whom are better than me. Although you should really read around the board for several days before you post something to be critiqued.

These days I only critique on the SFF Online Writing Workshop and for people who, like, actually want my opinion—which is frankly not that many people. You probably don’t really want my opinions either. ;) It’d be far better to hit AbsoluteWrite.

While you’re at AW by the way, visit the Learn Writing with Uncle Jim thread.

If you still want to listen to my pointless blathering—if there’s something I do well, it’s synthesizing stuff I’ve learned from books, analysis, and a little from my meager experience—here’s a few links:

• On my main blog, Spontaneous Derivation, there’s some resources under the category Story Cookies.
• Recommendations for some blogs about writing are under Blogs by Writers, for Writers.
• On my Holmes blog, I’m slowly and gradually tearing apart “The Speckled Band” as an analysis exercise. (Part 4 is coming. I promise. These things are intense.)

These should be enough to get you started. They are all worth way more than a critique from me. :)