Feedback 2
Sep. 25th, 2002 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebratqueenThanks to those who responded to my feedback question from before .
Good point to those who said that somebody can like stories of different genres or types. And that does apply to some of the comments. Although when some of the feedback I got was "Wow, that was such a great characterization of __________" and this other, crappy story had the worst characterization of ___________ that I've ever seen and got the same compliment - I've gotta say it devalues the feedback to me.
Don't get me wrong - I love feedback in all its forms. I'm not saying I'd rather these people never wrote to me in the first place. I'm talking about the next step of feedback, which is "How much of this should I take to heart?"
For example, if somebody slammed my characterization of Angel and was anti-slash, I'd know not to take the slam to heart because they're predisposed to not like a story that hooks Angel up with a guy.
Likewise, if somebody tells me that I do a good job with characterization of Angel, and then compliments somebody else for a good characterization of Angel in a story which isn't AU but writes Angel as Jewish, female and really good at singing - that's gonna leave an impression with me.
All the more reason to get some good beta readers and trust their feedback, I suppose. And hey - thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wolfling's and stakebait's schedules I was able to test run two new ones. Woohoo! Nothing like a new pair of slaves!
Good point to those who said that somebody can like stories of different genres or types. And that does apply to some of the comments. Although when some of the feedback I got was "Wow, that was such a great characterization of __________" and this other, crappy story had the worst characterization of ___________ that I've ever seen and got the same compliment - I've gotta say it devalues the feedback to me.
Don't get me wrong - I love feedback in all its forms. I'm not saying I'd rather these people never wrote to me in the first place. I'm talking about the next step of feedback, which is "How much of this should I take to heart?"
For example, if somebody slammed my characterization of Angel and was anti-slash, I'd know not to take the slam to heart because they're predisposed to not like a story that hooks Angel up with a guy.
Likewise, if somebody tells me that I do a good job with characterization of Angel, and then compliments somebody else for a good characterization of Angel in a story which isn't AU but writes Angel as Jewish, female and really good at singing - that's gonna leave an impression with me.
All the more reason to get some good beta readers and trust their feedback, I suppose. And hey - thanks to
wolfling's and stakebait's schedules I was able to test run two new ones. Woohoo! Nothing like a new pair of slaves!