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The Creative · № 14

Got Feedback

Submitted your work for formal critique, workshop, class, competition jury, mentor review, and made a revised version incorporating what you learned.

The idea

Real critique is uncomfortable. Most kids will reject the feedback to protect the work. Make them sit with it for 48 hours before responding to anything. Then ask: which part of it is right, even if it stings. The revised piece matters more than the original. That's where they learn to separate themselves from their work, which is the only way a creative survives a career.

Steps
  1. Submit the piece to a real critic: workshop, mentor, class, jury.
  2. Receive the critique without responding. Listen and write it down.
  3. Wait 48 hours. Identify what's right.
  4. Make a revised version using what you learned.
What counts

A piece submitted for formal critique and a revised version that shows the feedback was used. Both versions side by side are plenty.