Advice for Getting Feedback on Your Writing - podcast

Doug Stone, co-author of "Thanks for the Feedback," discusses how to ask for writing feedback so that it's helpful based on where the writer is in the writing process. He explains that they key to receiving helpful feedback on a piece of writing is to be specific when asking for it. The writer must coach the person on what kind of feedback would be most constructive.
 
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  • Thanks Doug for your great advice. Very useful!
  • Thanks ! OMG I needed this advice years ago! My story on this makes your point big time. I will keep this short. I hated to get presents as a kid because my father would make me write a thank you notes. This took hours on my part I could not write well or spell and my father was a proof reader. I barely got through school and I hated to read. In about 2001 I typed a book with two fingers. The book was about 24,000 words and about what my new book is about the only then I did not have all the answers now I do. I drove 40 minutes and gave my book to a proof reader when I got it back it was marked up worse than I thought any ten people combined could do. I stopped working on the book for over a year.