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Your Literary Works - Defend Or Accept Criticism

By Krystalina Soash

Well, there you are with your best written work staring back at you as you get ready to submit it. The spelling and grammar is correct, the punctuation is in the right places, the message is clear, your word count is right on target, and you’re feeling on top of your game. Your written work is perfect, and it’s your moment to shine!

But wait a minute, what’s this? What? Oh, No!

Your work receives criticism. What do you do? Do you get mad and take your work someplace else, or do you accept the criticism and work with it. You have options, and realistically you have to make a choice as to what you will do with that hard work that you’re so proud of.

Allow me to point out the two options that may be available to you:

1. Defend your work to the hilt! By golly, you worked hard at your writing and you deserve the credit for your work. You want respect for your work and you will demand it! Modification is not in your vocabulary, and neither is correction, revision, or altering. You will stand by your work one-hundred percent and won’t budge. It’s your best work and they can take it or lump it!

2. Accept the criticism: You accept the criticism in a dignified manner and use it to improve your writing; and as a result enhance what you already have. More often than not, you will find that by accepting and working with literary criticism you actually learn lessons you’d never learn without it. Your finished product just needed a little polishing for a better shine.

If you chose option number one, your writing may sit in a drawer for years and years and years. On your deathbed you might say, “Hmm, maybe I should’ve made some revisions”. Too late!

But seriously, for best results in your writing projects, accept criticism gracefully. Never allow yourself to fall in love with your work to the point that you will shut out all possibilities of improvement for future opportunities. Ask yourself, “Who am I writing for anyway?”

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