When the Critic Gets the Final Word
Last week I talked about using music to turn off the judgemental critical in your head.
There’s only one time when you need a critic… when you need to improve. Unfortunately - that critic - the helpful one who pushes you to do better, that type of critic is excessively rare.Finding someone who has enough skill to say, “This is good. Can you make this part better?” Or “Can you work on this aspect of your writing?” …that’s rare.
The more common type of critic is that hyper judgemental creativity shut down that comes with the question, “Am I doing this well enough?”We all have that critic. Sometimes it takes the form of a person who is a total downer on themselves and feels the need to spread it like manure on a farm field. The unfortunate thing about this type of person is that their highly hurtful words tend to stick in our brains and live there.
The most awesome thing you can do about them?
Prove them wrong. And this starts by hanging up the emotional phoneline. You don’t need them to be judging your work, while you’re still writing it.
You need to concentrate on your work.
This is a type of critic you can barricade in a certain room inside your brain, tell them to knit socks and twiddle thier thumbs until you get your novel done.
The writing process isn’t a place for judgement. If you’re an instinct writer, you don’t even know where your work is going. You and your critic can come back later and correct your spelling, punctuation and go plot hole hunting.That’s a partnership. Anything else with your critic can quickly become abusive. And no one needs to be themselves up.Your stories are amazing!
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