Comments on: 5 Tips for Handling Criticism (with a bonus sixth!) http://blog.writanon.com/2009/10/26/5-tips-for-handling-criticism-with-a-bonus-sixth/ Blog of the Bartender Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:56:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: TheBartender http://blog.writanon.com/2009/10/26/5-tips-for-handling-criticism-with-a-bonus-sixth/comment-page-1/#comment-205 TheBartender Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:25:29 +0000 http://blog.writanon.com/?p=649#comment-205 Sounds like this is an adaptation of tip #3. :) Agreed...sometimes walking away is the best way to handle the situation. It seems you can always find something to improve! Thanks, Linda! Sounds like this is an adaptation of tip #3. :)

Agreed…sometimes walking away is the best way to handle the situation. It seems you can always find something to improve! Thanks, Linda!

]]> By: Linda Hillman http://blog.writanon.com/2009/10/26/5-tips-for-handling-criticism-with-a-bonus-sixth/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Linda Hillman Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:06:51 +0000 http://blog.writanon.com/?p=649#comment-202 The advice you have given is very helpful. Another way to use the criticism is to read it and then walk away for a few days. This allows you digest the suggestions before you have to use them, then reread the suggestions made and look at the original writing as though another writer had written it. This gives you a different perspective. Now, rewrite the work using the advice given and compare the two; the rewrite is usually much better. The advice you have given is very helpful.

Another way to use the criticism is to read it and then walk away for a few days. This allows you digest the suggestions before you have to use them, then reread the suggestions made and look at the original writing as though another writer had written it. This gives you a different perspective.

Now, rewrite the work using the advice given and compare the two; the rewrite is usually much better.

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