Feedback Practice Session

In our first Office Hours session on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, at 5:00 p.m., we practiced giving feedback on a story submitted by one of our Life Writers, Terry Deer. Here is the replay of that session.

In this video:

00:01:14 - Narrow your focus for this session

00:01:44 - Memoir with a theme woven throughout a lifetime

00:02:28 - Focus on one topic for the session, concentrate your efforts

00:03:03 - Create a binder/notebook for your current project

00:04:53 - Refashion "write every day" goal to serve your current purpose

00:06:01 - Make room for editing in your goals

00:07:33 - Clarification on what is a scene

00:10:05 - Showing vs. telling emotion

00:14:36 - Following the pull of a story that wants to be written

00:16:06 - Feedback practice session of "A Close Call" by Terry Deer

00:53:17 - Usual amount of feedback given

00:55:25 - Take in feedback, allow it to settle before making changes

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