Saturday, April 25, 2009

Rob, on my most recent critique

The guys read chapters eleven through thirteen this week. Rob said some awesome stuff in his critique, and with his permission, I'm reprinting it here:

Not to do with your writing but a thought:

I wonder if negative thoughts about your appearance led to positive thoughts about your
self -- feelings that anything negative that came your way was based on how you looked, anything positive based on how you are.

I think in the time I've known you you've always shown confidence in yourself, but recently you seem to express less of a need to fit in, which I'm sure partially has to do with the group I'm seeing you in now, but at that other writer's group we attended once you had the same lack of a need to impress.

The change has taken place since you've been with Adam -- no cause/effect analysis here, I'm sure you were moving in the right direction when you met the right person.


Rob has known me for the better part of a decade and he doesn't bullshit around. I take this very seriously and am touched.

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