Renee, sending out books to reviewers is different than manuscript exchanges for stories that are a work-in-progress. You can make a request here to exchange mss or form a new group: https://www.scbwi.org/boards/index.php?board=127.0 or post your story (limit 1000 words) here: https://www.scbwi.org/boards/index.php?board=121.0  Happy writing and critiquing!

Congratulations, Rachel!

Thank you, all!!

 

Congratulations!

I have the free version of Grammarly and I find it helps most with spelling errors or sometimes phrasing, but that's mostly for very technical writing. When I'm writing something looser and more stylized, I find that I often disagree with Grammarly on comma usage, so it's mostly annoying.

That is kind  of what I think,  it feels more formal. They just keep getting in my head, “ I’d only you pay for it your manuscript would be perfect” 😂