Hello,
So i'm new. I hope i'm allowed to post threads here. Anyway, I wanted to ask how you all deal with feedback from readers (not agents or editors, but just random people).
I'm in graduate school, so I'm VERY used to constructive criticism. I actually really appreciate it, because I find that its one of the few ways to actually prompt me to make my writing truly better. I've gotten a lot of feedback from a writing group in my area and my sister (who is brutal and also a writer, lol). There has definitely been some stuff that I needed to fix, but its been pretty positive overall.
However, I recently posted my query letter on another website, and I was really surprised by some of the feedback. At first I was like *WOW* I need to do some revisions, but then I looked into their work a bit and I felt like their queries sometimes lacked a solid grasp on grammar. I was really surprised by how mean people could be.
How do you guys shift through feedback of other budding writers and figure out what is really solid and what might less so?
[p.s: This is absolutely not supposed to hate on anyone in particular or anyone on this site. Its just a general question about how to shift through feedback from the public.]
So i'm new. I hope i'm allowed to post threads here. Anyway, I wanted to ask how you all deal with feedback from readers (not agents or editors, but just random people).
I'm in graduate school, so I'm VERY used to constructive criticism. I actually really appreciate it, because I find that its one of the few ways to actually prompt me to make my writing truly better. I've gotten a lot of feedback from a writing group in my area and my sister (who is brutal and also a writer, lol). There has definitely been some stuff that I needed to fix, but its been pretty positive overall.
However, I recently posted my query letter on another website, and I was really surprised by some of the feedback. At first I was like *WOW* I need to do some revisions, but then I looked into their work a bit and I felt like their queries sometimes lacked a solid grasp on grammar. I was really surprised by how mean people could be.
How do you guys shift through feedback of other budding writers and figure out what is really solid and what might less so?
[p.s: This is absolutely not supposed to hate on anyone in particular or anyone on this site. Its just a general question about how to shift through feedback from the public.]