You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Writing workshop volume 16: How to accept criticism on your fiction writing
This is great advice, especially the focus on weighing up the comment as regards your own overall vision. From my own experience, suggestions are meant well, and editors do wish to steer the author in the right direction (and I can only speak from my own experience), but it can be easy to lose sight of what out story means in its overall context. Thank you for highlighting that.
Thank you, @naquoya! I'm so glad you found value in this. It makes the late night effort to write it all worthwhile! I'm going to write a retrospective at the end of the month about the #challenge30days effort, and how that goal pushed me to write things I never would have if I hadn't been completely committed to writing something of value every day, before allowing myself to put my head down for at least a partial night's sleep.
Criticism is hard to take sometimes, but it is so very enlightening! And as you suggested, at the end of the day, you need to evaluate and incorporate the feedback but find a way to remain true to the spirit of the story you are writing.