Re: How honest to have to be?
As everyone else has said, be brutal but support your brutality with valid reasons and suggestions.
And to elaborate on Totiwos, please remember in your critique that it is not YOUR story. Don't suggest character/plot/dialogue changes that don't really need changing just because that's not how YOU would do it if you were writting it. It's one of the biggest pitfalls I've found in reviewers.
As everyone else has said, be brutal but support your brutality with valid reasons and suggestions.
And to elaborate on Totiwos, please remember in your critique that it is not YOUR story. Don't suggest character/plot/dialogue changes that don't really need changing just because that's not how YOU would do it if you were writting it. It's one of the biggest pitfalls I've found in reviewers.
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