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| Introduction : every writer has a story | 1 | |
| What is feedback? | 7 | |
| EQ | 10 | |
| Sarah Stewart Taylor : "wow! this could be my job." | 13 | |
| Is it you ... or is it them? | 17 | |
| Processing feedback | 21 | |
| Samina Ali : "I would have sold my soul." | 26 | |
| Twenty-two years | 29 | |
| Editing your editor | 32 | |
| Ernest Hebert : "I wanted writing to be easy for me and it wasn't." | 37 | |
| Feedback hotlines | 39 | |
| "Danger, danger, Will Robinson!" | 43 | |
| Jennifer Crusie : "a story is a collaboration between a writer and a reader." | 47 | |
| The club | 50 | |
| Waiting for feedback | 54 | |
| Archer Mayor : "emotion is a blinding force." | 57 | |
| The value of toxic feedback | 60 | |
| Preventing mental meltdowns | 65 | |
| The power of positive feedback | 69 | |
| Grace Paley : "my nature wasn't ambitious enough to go ahead on my own." | 74 | |
| A right way and a wrong way | 78 | |
| Can you please be more specific! | 82 | |
| Khaled Hosseini : "even if the book is good, no one is going to want to publish it." | 86 | |
| The moment of truth | 88 | |
| Common human decency | 92 | |
| Don (D. B.) Johnson : "my best advice is to marry well." | 95 | |
| Editorial biases | 98 | |
| Get that look off your face | 102 | |
| Ted Kooser : "we all serve communities." | 105 | |
| Small miracles | 108 | |
| Hey, let's put on a workshop! | 113 | |
| How to have a good group discussion | 118 | |
| Gregory Maguire : "I don't revise in an architectural way." | 122 | |
| Who's in charge? | 124 | |
| The top ten rules of a successful writing group | 130 | |
| Julia Alvarez : "my dream of becoming a writer was a fool's dream." | 131 | |
| Meet the world's worst workshop | 134 | |
| Publishing 101 | 138 | |
| Jodi Picoult : "I call our relationship my second marriage." | 141 | |
| Can creative writing be taught? | 143 | |
| Crystal Wilkinson : "processing feedback has to be a meditation." | 146 | |
| In appreciation of bad writing | 149 | |
| Epilogue : feedback and the real world | 153 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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James Farrell
reviewed Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive on March 21, 2014
Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive
I have a (fetish? Addiction?) need for books about the writing process, and by writing process, I mean from blank page to publishing contract. I picked this book up both as a writer wanting to get more from the feedback I'm given, as well as some ideas of how to be a better critique-r. I found plenty of both, even after years of writing and being a member of some pretty awesome writing groups. There was not so much of the specific editing "how-to" (for that I recommend Bell's "The Artful Edit") but there WAS a plethora of advice, anecdotes, and interviews. I've got a few good ideas for improving my critiques of others, especially now as I sit down with the stack if next week's writers' group submissions. A definite recommend.
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