Receiving feedback on my writing from authors Amanda Hill Rawson and Karina Evans via WriteOnCon!7/18/2022 In a previous post, I introduced what WriteOnCon is and my (general) level of participation. If you don't know anything about WriteOnCon, check out their website or check out my post! WriteOnCon Feedback You can get feedback on your pitches, first-pages, and queries in a few different ways at WriteOnCon. There's the critique boutique (which is where you pay extra money for a specific professional to give you feedback) and there's the Peer Feedback Forums, which is where participants swap feedback with each other. You can also submit writing for a feedback session, which takes place live during the conference. There's no guarantee they'll get to your writing because they do "as many as they can get to" for the time they're allotted. (Note: You have to have full admission, the second payment tier, to access live events). I've watched people getting feedback from professionals at WriteOnCon as I've attended in the past, but I never felt "ready" or confident to submit any of my work... until this year!
I was nervous, though, to hear what she had to say about my writing because I watched her rip into (in a good way!) the picture book submissions (which I did not participate in) from the day before. Whenever I ask for feedback, I think there's always a part of me that hopes I won't need to make any changes, mostly because I tend to put a lot of my heart into anything I put on paper. But I never expect them to say it's "good to go"! There's always something to improve, right? Well, it happened. Amanda didn't have anything to critique. Okay, one tiny suggestion, and that was to hint at who the main character is in my first poem, but that's it! I nailed the poetry and conveyed the setting expertly. Yay!
I was floored when Karina got to my query and told me she wished she had something to suggest for improvement, but she couldn't find anything. I trust she would if she could because I heard her give important revision ideas to others who submitted. Floating on Cloud Nine
I recognize that I was able to get such encouraging praise for my writing because I've had beta readers and critique partners give ideas for improvement before submitting to the conference. Nevertheless, these feedback sessions have put me on cloud nine. I'm even more in love with my manuscript and that much more excited to finish another round of revisions and start querying because... I nailed it! I'm that much closer to publishing. Yay!
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