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Colleen Markley
Writers Guild
Published in
4 min readMay 11, 2019

Am I Not Good at Receiving Writing Feedback, or Afraid of an Echo Chamber?

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The funny thing about being a writer is that everyone has a lot of advice about what I should or should not write. Not only readers — I actually love hearing from readers — but also the new editors that I’m pitching and trying to convince to publish my work. Submitting articles and being rejected is probably my least favorite thing I’ve ever done. And…

Colleen Markley
Writers Guild

Award-winning writer. Memoir Instructor. (#amquerying a novel about the end of the world where only the women survive). www.ColleenMarkley.com