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    HOW TO BE A GOOD CRITIQUE PARTNER

    Sep 10, 2019 4 minutes
    BY ANICA MROSE RISSI

    hinking critically and deeply about another writer’s work-in-progress and articulating feedback not only benefits the other writer – it also develops your revision skills and helps you better understand your own writing process. Whether you do a manuscript swap or agree to read someone else’s work without reciprocation, it can be a win-win experience. But critique-partner relationships involve real vulnerability on the part of both the writer whose draft is to be dissected and the person wielding the scalpel. That vulnerability can lead to great insights and revisions…and great hurt. Before you dive metaphor-first into a critique of a friend or acquaintance’s draft, pause and ask that other writer – and yourself – received.

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