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Peer Pressure
By ALongLook in The Write Stuff
February 27, 2009

I was talking last night with a fellow writer about character development for a project she's working on.

After the discussion, I came to realize that we, as writers, need each other. We need feedback. We need constructive criticism. We can't work in a vaccum...all the time anyway.

So, if you have a writing project or projects you  are working on, find a critical thinker (by that I mean someone other than your mom or best friend who is going to :"love" everything you write) to talk about your writing. Discuss your story and your characters. Let them read what you've written and comment on it.

We should all have a reading circle at some point in a project. Several other readers who lend their opinions to what's right and what's wrong with your project.

Think about it. What can it hurt but your feelings? And in the long run, other eyes on your words will most likely make them better and more likely to leave the shoebox under your bed.

Keep writing!

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