Being a Better Writer: Good Sources of Positive Interaction · 9:28pm Oct 8th, 2018
Hello readers, and welcome back to another Being a Better Writer Monday usual!
Yeah, I know. I need to think of some new greetings. Regardless, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Mine was both invigorating and enlightening. Twice a year my faith holds a church-wide, televised conference over Saturday and Sunday, and this weekend happened to be it, so I had a lovely weekend relaxing in my recliner listening to said conference and doing self-discovery and examination.
In any case, that doesn’t have too much to do with today’s topic, though if I wanted it too, I likely could find some application. Actually, now that I’ve typed that, I think I can already see some application, but it remains to be seen if they’ll come out in this post or not.
So … Good sources of positive interaction. This is kind of an interesting topic, one that has to do more with the tangential bits of writing than the straight act of putting your fingers to a keyboard (or pen to paper, if you’re that old-fashioned). You could probably write an entire book—no, you could—without ever finding a need for this particular topic. But as you write a second? Or a third? Or start to edit that first one?
Well … this topic suddenly becomes a lot more valid. As solitary as writing can be at times (which is very, just ask my friends and family, some of whom occasionally see me come up for air), it’s also an act that cannot exist in a vacuum. Not just socially (we as human beings need interaction with others) but for the good of our writing as well. We need feedback. Responses. Interaction.
So how do we find good interactions that will improve our craft? And how do we avoid those that will harm it?
Well, that is the topic according to the post title, isn’t it? So let’s dive into this.
A most interesting read, this one. I can safely say that I try to be positive in all my interactions as a reviewer. As the one getting edited, however, I have to admit that the single hardest thing is taking the suggestions well. There’s no greater challenge than being told you’re wrong and accepting that, by God, it might actually be true. But I’ve found that my best works tend to be the ones where that that happens, so I continue to put up with it and try to improve my ability to react appropriately.
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Agreed. It's a tricky line to walk.