How to Accept (and Make Use of) Constructive Criticism
This is the skill every writer needs to cultivate ASAP.
Criticism is hard to take. Can we all just agree on that?
Let’s just get that out of the way now. No one likes it. No one wants to deal with it. Everyone wants to hear that whatever they’ve created — whether it’s writing or a meal or a baby — is perfect in every way just how it is.
No revision required.
Yeah. Critique sucks. I’m willing to allow that you can go ahead and believe that your kid is perfect (although even that can get . . . uh . . . problematic as that kid gets older)but in most of life, if you want to improve, you need to learn how to take constructive criticism and learn from it.
Especially when it comes to your writing. Because I don’t know of any other way to really learn how to be a better writer than to have readers who are willing to offer you constructive criticism and then learn how to accept and implement that feedback.
Let’s start by defining constructive criticism.
Plain old criticism means telling someone what’s wrong with their work.
Criticism a noun meaning: the expression of disapproval of someone or something based on…
