Reader question: How do I process feedback about my writing?
Reader question! Reader question! I got a reader question about how to process feedback. I’ve written before about receiving feedback. My advice was “don’t.” 🤣🤣 Seriously. 😐Don’t. People can lob their feedback over the fence. (Maybe you even asked them to!) But whether you asked or not, you do not have to pick it up off the ground just because it landed on your side. You don’t have to receive things just because they’re given. (And if like me, you can’t stop yourself from soliciting feedback, then consider creating a small circle of 1-3 people whose only feedback ever is “It’s good! 😀 Keep going.”) *** But what if you have no choice? That’s my reader’s question. She’s writing for work, and her boss has appointed themselves editor. She asks: “How do you deal with negative feedback that requests improvement, but perhaps isn’t specific on how to …
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