Writing Problems: Feedback

Auden, Merwin, Stafford, Wilson, Paz, Kelly

W.H. Auden:

The best reader is someone who is crazy about your work but doesn’t like all of it.

One of my most avid readers asks: In the process of showing one’s work/draft, how does one figure out when feedback is constructive or the opposite?

She says she’s aware that if she’s lucky, she might get feedback that she can feel in her body is a “yes,” or th…