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7DS 5.1 (Patreon)

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2022-01-30 10:47:51
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In light of so many of you being super kind and giving me feedback, I want to share this really useful tweet about giving/receiving feedback:
https://twitter.com/MaryRobinette/status/1124108884858347520

The first image is for people giving feedback, second image for people receiving feedback, it is all a very good way of looking at things!

The clinical trial metaphor is spot on - essentially, if you're kind enough to share with me your feelings/symptoms I can then interpret this in light of the story. Sometimes people apologise for not giving me a diagnosis or a prescription, but that's not what I've been looking for so please don't feel sorry. Sharing your symptoms with me is amazing and super useful to me :)

Thank you all, as always, for reading <333

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Fletcher

Ooh I really like Mary Robinette Kowal. Both her books and her writing advice. I used to listen to podcasts she was on for writing when I was writing more actively. That's an excellent tweet to link to. I'm probably guilty of offering diagnosis more than symptoms on occasion, and for that I apologize. Speaking of, Tess is so adorable in that first panel! And I really liked the last panel, with the dialog being off panel, although it took me a second to realize she was hiding behind the door. I'm assuming she's stuck now, cause it'd be obvious she was hiding if she stepped out from behind the door, and then super awkward.

walkingnorth
>>76837966

So I haven't read anything by Mary Robinette Kowal - I came across the tweet in a webcomics resources post and went "oh that's good". I just now got very excited to hear she has a writing podcast and googled for it and realised... I am already listening, haha, I just never really registered the names of any of the hosts (other than Brandon Sanderson - I found the podcast via his writing lectures on youtube ^^; ) I will definitely have to read some of Mary's books, they sound fantastic!! Don't apologise for offering diagnosis, it's very hard to describe the sort of feedback that's most helpful and I've never had a good way of describing this until now :) (Also I've had experiences with professional editors - who's job it is to fully understand the goals of the clinical trial and give appropriate diagnosis and prescription - where they had given me very strange diagnosis and prescriptions which weren't actually in line with the clinical trial's goals, and then I had to work back from that to figure out the symptoms and propose a diagnosis/prescription that we all thought worked and made things better. So yeah, even professionals find this hard. Feedback is tricky!!! Also I *love* this metaphor for feedback, it's so good to have words to talk about things.) I definitely need to clarify those last two panels, you are not the first person with this symptom :) Thank you so much for the kind words and the feedback!! And the book recs :D

Fletcher
>>76837966

I highly recommend Mary's "Glamour in Glass" series, if you're either a romance fan or a fantasy fan (hmm, I wonder?), it works on both levels. It's some of her oldest work but it's still very good. She has some new stuff out also dealing with alternate universe space race stuff I admittedly haven't read/listened to yet, but it's in my queue. Also I agree the symptom/diagnosis metaphor is excellent! Thank you for sharing it!

Escritorian

Tess, you amazing disaster lesbian