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- Clare C. Greenstreet
- hey I'm Clare. I'm 25 and work as a shop assistant part time. I have two blogs, The Life of a Wannabe Writer and Transom Hull. Transom Hull is one of my stories and the blog is where you can read it.
Friday, 8 April 2011
So Nervous
I'm so nervous because I really wanted some people to read what I had so far with Power of Friendship 1. I put a little plea on Facebook and someone I was friends with in Primary school asked to send it through. I have and now I am so nervous about the feedback. I know I wanted advice but I just can't help worrying about what he might think of it. I know I shouldn't because it'll probabaly be a while before I hear anything. Must go and calm myself down so I can do a bit more writing on it and stop myself worrying about what people are going to think. I won't be able to stop worrying if it's ok if I don't get some feedback from others and to do that people have to read it.
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It's brave to go looking for feedback when you're starting out. But remember that a lot of negative feedback from a non-writer will be about the reader, not your writing. Maybe they don't read much of your genre, or the character reminds them of somebody who was mean to them in childhood.
The best feedback is from other writers, so looking around in forums is a great way to get more balanced opinions. But still, they'll be partly about the reader.
So if the feedback isn't 100% positive, that doesn't mean you have to change the work. See if it gives you an "aha" moment. If it doesn't, ignore it.
Is this the manuscript you sent to me a couple of years ago to read?
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