White Collar; Fic; Little Things; PG-13

Title: Little Things
Rating: PG-13
Genre/Pairing: Neal/Kate. OT3, with some squinting.
Spoilers: For Out of the Box.
Warnings: Grief, crying. Exploding cantaloupes.
Author's Note: There's fic I should be working on and beta-ing I should be doing, but I woke up in the middle of the night with this in my head and had to write it.
Summary: Neal tries to think like a con man, like being sane is his cover.

( The woman on the street in front of him and the way the streetlight highlights the curve of her neck bending forever under her hair--that stops him. )

White Collar Meta! Constructive Criticism: a Primer.

Alright. Some things before I start:

1) I am not, by any means, an expert on constructive criticism. What knowledge I do have comes from the fact that I am a creative writing student, and as such have been in a number of workshop classes. These classes exposed me to the views of several brilliant professors, and also to those of a number of other writers. Additionally, I was lucky enough to have one of those professors agree to work with me on the production of the novel I'm currently writing. Because of this, I have received A LOT of concrit. None of this makes me any kind of an expert; it just makes me comfortable with this topic.

2) I am also not, by ANY means, attempting to cause wank. This is not my super sekkrit way of calling someone out--I don't play those games in real life, and I see no reason to play them over the interwebs. I am writing this post because this topic has come up a lot over the past few weeks. I've heard from writers who've received concrit (or NOT concrit) and have wanted to know how to handle it; I've heard from readers who want to offer concrit, but are afraid to. I myself have received some concrit from readers who have been massively apologetic about offering it, and it finally occurred to me that I've never seen a post that really delves into it. THAT IS ALL I AM TRYING TO DO. please do not be mad at me :D

OKAY. All that being said, here we go:

( Constructive Criticism: A Primer )