Friends I love you and all but some of you can t read worth crap And by read I mean give good feedback And apparently my feedback is crappy as well it s another thing that you get better at the more you do it and I hope to do it more and more because I certainly need some improvement Although I haven t given most of you a chance like I promised to read my manuscript yet someday someday the I m applying to have a March deadline so I ve been taking my sweet time So here I am in the process of applying to Creative Writing programs and the manuscript oh the manuscript She s such a bitch let me tell you sorry Mom That thing is one of the hardest things I ve ever done am doing and yet one of the most satisfying things ever F reals y all Of course I haven t touched it in a week Sometimes it s best to just step away from that monster But I can t lie she s a beaut And she s becoming more and more beautiful each day all thanks to Julia Fierro at And truly I have not thanked Julia enough but hopefully a big fat thank you note will be crowding her mailbox soon because I am indebted to this woman A couple months ago I was itching for some professional creative eyes to take a looksy at the manuscript I m planning on using for submissions to get into grad school It s an excerpt from the novel I m writing and well it s a beastly thing I needed an experienced reader to tell me what needed to be done to make it better I mean I m extremely harsh on my own work and I can see a lot of things that need fixing but squeaky clean eyeballs can see things I can t I was reading a blog all about applying to Creative Writing MFA programs and they had some post about I clicked over and saw that they also do manuscript consultations I dropped an email and received a prompt response from Julia herself Here s her little write up from the website JULIA FIERRO Workshop Director and Instructor of Novel Writing and the Post MFA Fiction Writing Workshop is a graduate of