Where do you guys go to get your work critiqued? I just started

Take a class in English and make friends with the professor. Make sure the professor isn't fat or a woman.

Those among friends and family known for avid reading and impartiality.

Handing it over to even a highly qualified stranger will usually result in it getting buried under something they feel is actually important or worthwhile.

Basically, give it to someone who has a reason to give a fuck (this might be hard; who cares about shit that isn't money any more?) and respects you enough not to lie to spare your feelings.

I send my stuff to a high school lit teacher and a friend of mine who reads even more than I do. They usually have goodles feedback and I think my stories are better for it.

>he doesnt have a based literary mother
>she didnt force him to sit down after his homework and write short stories
>she didnt destroy his early works as banal and with no discernible talent
>she didnt force you to sit up writing for hours and hours until you wrote one sublime sentence then sent you to bed with milk
>you didnt come back down later because she didnt kiss you good night
>she didnt beat you for writing sci fi and genre shit when you were 14
>she didnt give you lashes with the rod for grammar mistakes
>she doesnt still critique your work despite you no longer needing it as the writer you became thanks to her

>>8430055
A friend who is a lecturer in creative writing.
He's going to be marking shit stories during the night anyway so what's one more to his pile.

>>8430055
Keep sundance alive please OP