As a writer hoping to be a professional, there’s one thing you must absolutely have, and that is feedback. We all hate it, we never like it when someone takes something we have poured our hearts and souls into get torn apart by someone else, usually someone who doesn’t have the same kind of experience with the art of storytelling we do. However, when you can find the right person to critique you, they can be a gold mine of help.
I have a few people whom I rely on for help with my stories. Just today I was talking to one of them on the phone about a thriller story I’d written and he pointed out things that I’d forgotten, hadn’t considered, or suspected about the story that kept it form being the best it could be. Regardless to say, in just those few short sentences, my eyes had opened up and I thought of things that could be done to improve the story. So tonight, if I can find the time, I will edit the story and hopefully have it in better shape than the rough draft.
After all, I enjoyed writing this story and I have high hopes for it. Perhaps then it’ll be ready for publication.
Oh, and to all of you whom I regularly rely on for feedback, thanks for the help. I can’t say it enough times, how your critiques are essential to my writing craft and how much they improve the plot of the stories I write, My metaphorical hat is off to you.
Rami Ungar The Writer 
As a writer/editor I find that feedback is always a balancing act on both ends. Ultimately the writer gets the final say, but art is always improved with collaboration.
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