Comments: reading & critiquing

I can really identify with this post. Fortunately, I haven't had any really toxic critiques. I have had negative ones but those were usually somewhat constructive.

The Shrink in my critique group does not provide very constructive, helpful critiques. I know this well enough to pretty much disregard his comments.

We once had a woman in our group who was tactless. After one of us read, she'd comment "I don't get this. I would never read something like this on my own." And then proceed to pick it apart, paragraph by paragraph. She's no longer in our group.

Posted by Amanda at June 5, 2004 03:27 PM