[PUBLIC POST] Criticisms of your writing
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go_writeTo members: Sorry I completely forgot about this week's midweek Open Chat. I was going to space it out from the last one, and then I got absent-minded, and now it's a bit too late. I'll resume next week, and schedule a post in advance so I don't forget.
To everyone: Let's talk about criticism, specifically criticism of your writing. Some questions to get you started:
- How do you generally respond to negative feedback?
- What's a piece of critical feedback that was painful to you?
- Did criticism help you, and how?
- What was an unhelpful piece of criticism?
- Have you make any changes in response to negative feedback?
- What do you think constitutes helpful negative feedback?
- Giving criticism can be as tricky as receiving it. Do you have any techniques for giving effective criticism?
Feel free to answer one or more of these questions, or to relate any other anecdotes or thoughts about critical feedback.
We'll cheer ourselves up next week with the flip side of this post, positive feedback, so stay tuned for that!
To everyone: Let's talk about criticism, specifically criticism of your writing. Some questions to get you started:
- How do you generally respond to negative feedback?
- What's a piece of critical feedback that was painful to you?
- Did criticism help you, and how?
- What was an unhelpful piece of criticism?
- Have you make any changes in response to negative feedback?
- What do you think constitutes helpful negative feedback?
- Giving criticism can be as tricky as receiving it. Do you have any techniques for giving effective criticism?
Feel free to answer one or more of these questions, or to relate any other anecdotes or thoughts about critical feedback.
We'll cheer ourselves up next week with the flip side of this post, positive feedback, so stay tuned for that!
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Date: 2016-07-19 04:30 am (UTC)Your excellent reply got me thinking. Even if the feedback isn't helpful, or it's just plain negative all around, it's still a learning experience. You still get a tougher skin (ALWAYS helpful). You still learn to dismiss whatever isn't useful for you and better focus your energies. And even if the critique leaves you defensive, as long as the seed has been planted, you'll still revisit it at some point in the future to better your writing (when you're more ready to hear it maybe).
So in a way, no matter what feedback you might get, you still get something out of it that will change you and your writing. (But it's still not pleasant to go through :P )