Getting Feedback
Feedback is crucial to any serious writer's progress. It's nice to have someone read your work and tell you it's awesome, but that's not really why feedback is important. In fact, if somebody's looking at your first draft and telling you it's awesome, odds are they're just trying to flatter you. The reason why feedback is so important to a writer's progress is because we're often too close to our writing to see what's wrong with it. We love those pretty sentences that just don't belong. We're so deeply in love with our world that we forget our readers don't know anything about it. We already know the story, so we tend to skim instead of slowing down to find the spelling mistakes. A second pair of eyes helps us…