15.51: Feedback—When to Listen, and When to Ignore, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
Your Hosts: Dan, Howard, Mahtab, and Brandon
We’re often taught that the best critique group feedback is reactions to the writing, rather than advice for fixing it. But prescriptive feedback—critiques that include suggestions for you how to might rewrite something—is an important part of the process.
In this episode we discuss how we curate our critique groups and filter their feedback to improve our writing, and our experiences with these groups.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Marshall Carr, and mastered by Alex Jackson.
Homework:
The Random Critique Exercise:
1) You and a writer friend each prepare a critique of a different thing.
2) File the serial numbers off (character names, locations, etc) and swap critiques.
3) Treat this critique from your friend as if it was for your manuscript. Discover what wrong advice looks like, and how often a broken watch might actually be correct.
Thing of the week: What Unites Us, by Dan Rather.
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