Toxic Feedback,9781584655442

Toxic Feedback

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ISBN13: 9781584655442
ISBN10: 1584655445
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-07-31
Publisher(s): Univ Pr of New England
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Summary

All writers have stories of how a teacher, workshop participant, friend, or spouse gave them commentary that undermined their confidence and their writing. This "toxic feedback" has tainted feedback's reputation as a whole, causing too many writers to avoid or mismanage this valuable resource.

Author Biography

A professional writer and editor, JONI B. COLE is creator of the This Day series, including This Day: Diaries from American Women (2003) and This Day in the Life: Diaries from Women Across America (2005). She has led fiction-writing workshops for over ten years and has developed a workshop based on Toxic Feedback.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Every Writer Has a Story 1(6)
Rethinking Feedback
What is Feedback?
7(3)
EQ
10(7)
Sarah Stewart Taylor: "Wow! This could be my job."
13(4)
Getting Feedback
Is It You...or Is It Them?
17(4)
Processing Feedback
21(8)
Samina Ali: "I would have sold my soul."
26(3)
Twenty-Two Years
29(3)
Editing Your Editor
32(7)
Ernest Hebert: "I wanted writing to be easy for me and it wasn't."
37(2)
Feedback Hotlines
39(4)
"Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!"
43(7)
Jennifer Crusie: M story is a collaboration between a writer and a reader."
47(3)
The Club
50(4)
Waiting for Feedback
54(6)
Archer Mayor: "Emotion is a blinding force."
57(3)
The Value of Toxic Feedback
60(5)
Giving Feedback
Preventing Mental Meltdowns
65(4)
The Power of Positive Feedback
69(9)
Grace Paley: 'My nature wasn't ambitious enough to go ahead on my own."
74(4)
A Right Way and a Wrong Way
78(4)
Can You Please Be More Specific!
82(6)
Khaled Hosseini: "Even if the book is good, no one is going to want to publish it."
86(2)
The Moment of Truth
88(4)
Common Human Decency
92(6)
Don (D.B.) Johnson: "My best advice is to marry well."
95(3)
Editorial Biases
98(4)
Get That Look Off Your Face
102(6)
Ted Kooser: "We all serve communities."
105(3)
Small Miracles
108(5)
In the Company of Writers
Hey, Let's Put On a Workshop!
113(5)
How to Have a Good Group Discussion
118(6)
Gregory Maguire: "I don't revise in an architectural way"
122(2)
Who's in Charge?
124(6)
The Top Ten Rules of a Successful Writing Group
130(4)
Julia Alvarez: "My dream of becoming a writer was a fool's dream."
131(3)
Meet the World's Worst Workshop
134(4)
Publishing 101
138(5)
Jodi Picoult: "I call our relationship my second marriage."
141(2)
Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
143(6)
Crystal Wilkinson: "Processing feedback has to be a meditation."
146(3)
In Appreciation of Bad Writing
149(4)
Epilogue: Feedback and the Real World 153(2)
Acknowledgments 155(2)
About the Author 157

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