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Critique is difficult to give and receive, as Lorraine Mace is painfully aware
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Lorraine Mace
We writers are funny folk. As beginners we give our work to friends and family asking them to be honest, but really only wanting praise. I know when I first started out I hoped to be told how brilliant I was. I now acknowledge that this was probably not the best approach to take if I wanted to improve, but back then asking for a critique was more akin to begging for approval than looking for constructive criticism.
I still recall feeling I should give up writing for good when I joined an online writing group and received critiques from people who didn’t have a reason to spare my feelings. This is not to say they were cruel. They were simply giving me exactly what I’d said I wanted – the truth. Sadly, after being told by everyone who loved me that I was the Next Great Thing in Literature, it was a bit demoralising to discover most of what I’d written was more litter than literature.
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