SHORT SYNOPSIS: Hearing feedback on your written work is an emotional challenge. Developing the skills to understand and implement that feedback requires skills – both intellectual and emotional. This book offers both.

LONG SYNOPSIS:  When someone is willing to give you feedback on your written work, you’ll likely feel both excited and scared. But can you receive critique without getting defensive? Can you separate what might work from what won’t or will rewriting what’s suggested change everything until you can’t recognize your own work?

So many questions, so many different reactions, all of them reasonable but not all of them workable.

When it comes to rewriting, most writers will get in their own way at least a few times during the process. Even the best writers go through this, although it does become briefer and easier with practice.

Not only that, you are uniquely you and bring with you your unique ways of handling emotional baggage.

The Dramafied process of hearing feedback is a system that will help you distance yourself from your usual emotional triggers. The additional information and psychological strategies will support your efforts.

Padma, Chris, Jin and Michael join with Juanita to form a writers’ group. Each has a story to tell but they know they need the support of other writers and a system of hearing feedback to help them meet their goals. In reading this book, you will learn alongside of them.

Textman is Juanita’s written work. He wants to avoid getting stuck in the dreaded Drawer so that she smooths out his rough edges and grows up. Dialogues between a pair of brains will also make big ideas more pragmatic.

Juanita and Padma become fast friends, inviting you deeper into the lives of those in the group and how they manage their complex lives.

The characters have their own assignments, but you have exercises that are illuminating, insightful and fun.