Feedback is most useful when you stop treating every note as either an instruction or an attack. A note is information about the reader’s experience, and the writer still has to decide what revision best addresses it. The writer can take a reader's difficulty seriously while still finding a solution that belongs to the manuscript. Ask what caused the noteIf someone says a character seems unlikeable, the real issue might be missing motivation, repetition or a scene that arrive

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