writers-groups

One thing an early-on writer has to learn, is to be comfortable with and responsive to critique. When five people in a group tell you this chapter sucks; don__ snap back at them with, __ure, but it gets better in another 6 or 7 chapters!__isten. _ Thank them. _ Consider.They can look from a fresh perspective, and catch things that you might be too close to see.But, you will also learn along the way that not everyone in a group of relative amateurs themselves, is going to catch everything, and there will be a few who seem to never understand much of anything.Some will always want paragraphs chopped down to explosive missiles of passion, while others are more used to long composite paragraphs that I myself find impossible to wade through.You may, once you have hit your full stride and power, feel comfortable telling a few of them, __ook. This isn__ a diner. I don__ take orders: ____ gluten intolerant; he can__ do salt; she__ allergic to peanuts ...___f what I offer is a salad bar, then No; I am not going to fry you up a cheesesteak!