Writers

Anyone have protips for getting productive feedback on an essay?

Problem: I write about a topic I'm passionate about, send a draft to friends, they get riled and the feedback results in nearly a full rewrite x3 the original length to address all the arguments, at which point I'm burned out and don't want to publish.

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i still have this problem from time to time! some things ive done differently:

1. @twinfin and i have a weekly writing date where we meet, read what we wrote that week, and give feedback to each other. at the beginning our feedback was vague. we went back, researched, and now our feedback game has gotten better

Maybe it was on Tim Ferris, can't remember, but they were talking about feedback. Feedback is too vague, be specific. Ask your friends which two paragraphs they would fight the world to keep, and which two they would cut, for example. Or ask them to 'mark' it out of 10. Work out the average. If it's 7-9 you're fine