The Zone of Proximal Development: Where you are, plus one

I was having a Twitter discussion with a couple of writer buddies around contests and feedback. How it's so helpful when judges give comments versus just filling out the scoresheet. And how do you interpret polarized comments from different judges? And finally, when people judge, sometimes they feel like they ended up giving a six page critique or red-lined the whole darn thing and maybe that was overkill.

I've had that happen plenty of times. I send out pages asking for a look at motivation o...