Invaluable Feedback

Audrey
Audrey
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

Today I got feedback on something I wrote a long time ago.

I’ve known this whole time that it wasn’t ready for submission or publication yet, I was still way too close to it, but a friend encouraged me to submit it anyway.

I’m glad I did.

She didn’t accept it for publication, but she read it, and she gave me notes and edits (i.e. cuts) that I wouldn’t have, in a million years (no matter how far away I got from it), seen or made myself.

Then she told me: “Revise this. Submit it again without fear… it does belong in the submission boxes of lit magazines. You’re 1000% in the right place.”

I expected edits. I expected criticism. I expected those critical notes to be bookended with ones of kindness and encouragement, because that’s something I learned to do as a writing tutor.

But that comment I did not expect, and it felt really good.

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