So Much is About Feedback

It’s time to salute those who may or may not get mentioned in the “acknowlegements” section of a novel: all those people who helped the author get the work done. When I was younger, I used to avoid feedback, or grimace my way through it when I was forced to listen to anyone’s criticisms of my work.

Now I crave feedback. Most of the time, you’re working in the dark when you write a novel or a screenplay. Granted, a lot of the feedback you get can be loony or misguided. But when you find someone who takes the time to read what you’ve written and tell you what they really think, their comments can be more valuable to me than gold. Keep your dollars; give me good feedback.

A few women in particular have been really helpful with A FALSE DAWN and especially with the new book, the sequel SUNRISING. From these women I learned things I never would have figured out on my own. The more feedback I get, the better my writing becomes: more fully realized, more rounded, more in many ways like myself, for better or for worse.

I can only write the best that I can. Ladies in my life have made my work and my life so much richer. I think of them now because some of them are gone, but not forgotten. Never forgotten. They have improved my work and touched my heart.