The mark of the professional writer is not the lack of mistakes, but how the writer handles them.
The mark of the great artist is to learn even thrive from those mistakes.
Here, at last, is a simple process to thrive.
“This slender volume provides more bang for the buck than far longer, weightier tomes. It is a splendid resource to which writers will refer repeatedly.”
- Richard Walter Chairman of Screenwriting, U.C.L.A.
I wish I'd had this short, concise tool in my coaching tool box. As a current editor for an electronic publisher, this book is invaluable!"
- Kathy Doran Cottrell, RN, Rape Crisis Service of Rochester
Feedback … a kinder word for criticism, is an organic component to life.
When a toddler learns to walk, he falls. He screams, cries – and persists. What would happen to the human race if he gave up after a few bumps?
Before we could read self-help books, before we could understand a language and sit in a classroom, we learned by trial and error. “Feedback” is the natural teaching process. It’s how the creator set it up. It’s how the world actually works.
Here, at last, is a simple process for getting the most from all the feedback the world offers us.
“The lessons contained in “Feedback” are not for the writer who is merely looking for a compliment, but rather for those who are striving for accomplishment.”
- Barton Green Author, Screenwriter and long-time friend
Excerpt
For some reason it's easy to cling to criticism. To walk through the world telling yourself, I can't act my way out of a paper bag, or my work is sloppy no matter what I do.
If you think about it, you probably can recall criticism you heard as a child. When I was eight-years-old, I overheard my father tell my mother I was lazy. To this day, if I'm not getting everything done as fast as I wish, if things are piling up on my desk, I can hear him saying, she's lazy!
Clinging to criticism, to all the negative comments or snide remarks we've heard over the years, creates a very heavy burden. If you walk through the world so weighted down, you will inevitably slow and finally stop altogether from the sheer pressure.
All you can humanly do is what we just did. Take in the information, analyze it, and decide what to do. There is nothing more to be done.
It the criticism has served you. Now send it on its merry way.
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