Mentorships It’s an even month, when I usually talk about giving or receiving feedback. I’m going to mutate that into talking about getting mentorship, which may involve getting feedback. Types of Mentorships There are multiple types of mentorship programs. Career – These focus on career aspects of writing. Your mentor will provide you assistance with…

Querying!! For months I have wanted to post some advice on querying. You may have already seen the advice I’m going to give. However, I’ve come across many writers who query without getting up-to-date advice and make mistakes. The worst that happens is the writer gets a form rejection. The best that happens is the…

How to Give Helpful Feedback Be Honest and Positive Going back to an earlier post, the best feedback to give and recieve is both Honest and Positive. Again, hat tip to Darren Groth for combining these. To everybody who I critiqued before I learned about the positive portion, I apologize. I assumed you would know…

Twitter Writing Advice or Listicle Advice or Pithy Advice As of the writing of this post, Twitter was dying. Who knows what state it will be in by the time I post this particular blog. But the idea is the same.  The idea of Twitter Writing Advice, Listicle Advice, or short, succinct advice is that…

How to get or give good feedback I have gotten absolutely horrendous feedback on my work. Often it’s the format rather than the form. My goal in today’s post is to give a few “what not to do when giving feedback” and also give some tips on how to get good feedback. Tips I probably…

“You could be writing…” I find the type of advice and self-flagellation about doing things when “you could be writing” to be toxic and often, untrue. If you aren’t writing, could you really be? If I feel like writing, I am unless there is something more important or pressing to be doing. That’s probably because…

It’s feedback time! The title and topic of this series is Writing Advice and Feedback and I haven’t talked about feedback yet. So, here we go! Today, I’m going to talk about receiving feedback. A later blogpost will talk about giving it. The best advice about receiving and using feedback is the same as for…

What is this? For a couple of years now, I’ve been threatening one of my writing groups to write blog posts about writing advice and feedback. I get a little cranky on these topics. They say, “Do it!” and then I never do. Kermit Do It GIFfrom Kermit GIFs That is about to change. More…