People who are really excellent at giving feedback and critique tend to understand this intuitively. But overall, it tends to make workshops a much better experience when everyone understands this, since it changes from a mish-mash of personal likes and dislikes and insecurities wrapped up in egos, to a collaborative exercise of talented…
People who are really excellent at giving feedback and critique tend to understand this intuitively. But overall, it tends to make workshops a much better experience when everyone understands this, since it changes from a mish-mash of personal likes and dislikes and insecurities wrapped up in egos, to a collaborative exercise of talented writers trying to help each other bring out the best in each other's work.
But it runs the other way too, in that you don't have to pay attention to feedback that isn't helping you get closer to your own intentions. Sure, it never hurts to take a moment consider another perspective on the story to see if there's any gold in there, but if there isn't, no sense getting mired up in the feedback from someone who didn't get what you're trying to do.
It may be a smart take, but it's the wrong smart take for you.
Yeah. Everything is up there for us to use, it's up to us to choose what feedback to take, and what writing lessons we can use. When I learned that, that's when I began to really appreciate workshops.
People who are really excellent at giving feedback and critique tend to understand this intuitively. But overall, it tends to make workshops a much better experience when everyone understands this, since it changes from a mish-mash of personal likes and dislikes and insecurities wrapped up in egos, to a collaborative exercise of talented writers trying to help each other bring out the best in each other's work.
But it runs the other way too, in that you don't have to pay attention to feedback that isn't helping you get closer to your own intentions. Sure, it never hurts to take a moment consider another perspective on the story to see if there's any gold in there, but if there isn't, no sense getting mired up in the feedback from someone who didn't get what you're trying to do.
It may be a smart take, but it's the wrong smart take for you.
Yeah. Everything is up there for us to use, it's up to us to choose what feedback to take, and what writing lessons we can use. When I learned that, that's when I began to really appreciate workshops.