Sharing Your Writing Isn’t Safe. It’s Necessary.
I know, I know the idea of sharing our writing can be a bit intimidating. It can even be scary.
While it’s under privacy, lock, and key we can feel safe knowing nobody can say whether it’s good or not, but is that really good?
At what point do we put it out there?
Write with the intention of sharing it.
When we write, if we eventually want to be a freelance writer, an author, a copywriter, or a blogger we should be writing with the intention of allowing someone else to read it.
We should be looking for the right people to hand it over to in order to get good feedback.
What is good feedback?
“Hey, this is really terrible. Burn it. Take it behind a barn and shoot it. Drop it in a vat of battery acid.”
This is not good feedback.
Good feedback is detailed and actionable.
“I liked your main character, but I’m chapter two they sound different than when I first read their dialogue in chapter one.”
We are looking for people who will read what we’ve written and give feedback we can work with to make it better.
We want to know if the things we tried to do with our writing worked or not.
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Where can I find people like this?
This could be hard. A spouse, a relationship, a friend (that reads a lot).
There is a great place on Reddit called destructive readers. They are a group that’s willing to read small submissions and just provide free actionable feedback.
It’s a great place to anonymously drop some writing and expect a few meaningful responses.
Don’t expect them to just butter you up. They will tell you the good, the bad, and the really really bad stuff you need to work on.
And that is so helpful.
If you’re in a writer’s group, I recommend reading and critiquing each other’s work, but if only praise is flying around the room, somethings wrong.
We want to hear back from people that are willing to tell us the hard truths so that we can actually learn and grow in our writing.
Don’t sweat it.
I know it’s hard but when you start to put your writing out there, people will always have differing opinions.
And I don’t care if you’re the writing Pope, someone is not going to like your writing.
That’s fine. Maybe they are your target market. That’s no problem. If something needs to change then change it, but keep moving forward and getting better.
Just know that you are going to run into people that don’t like what you’re doing and that is perfectly normal. Put your writing out there anyway and get better.
You’ll never know what your writing can really do until it’s in front of someone else’s eyes.
Sharing Your Writing Isn’t Safe. It’s Necessary.
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Hope this helps!
Happy writing!
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