Tag: criticism
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April 13, 2009 03:49 PM EDT --
In my forties a fellow teacher suddenly stopped me with, "Just a minute, Leo. You always interrupt me before I'm finished talking."
I was thunderstruck! I immediately realized . . .
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August 03, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
Today I am not in frame of mind to write.Ya,writers are like this but after reading few articles I took my pen and started writing on a very sensitive issue, which plays a major part in a writer's . . .
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March 18, 2008 07:14 PM EDT --
When I signed up for Gather, I knew I was joining an encouraging and supportive community of fellow writers, artists, and awesome people. When I signed up for Gather, I knew I wanted to contribute . . .
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October 05, 2007 03:40 PM EDT --
Amy George and I began talking to each other about constructive criticism in the comment thread of the recent three-way collaboration on Boris G.'s "Inner Morality." I think we were . . .
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March 17, 2008 01:28 AM EDT --
"Blowing out another person's candle will not make yours shine brighter."
A Gather buddy recently published an article in which she addressed the issue of some Gather . . .
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March 11, 2009 05:53 AM EDT --
Too much praise, inflates;
Too much criticism, deflates;
A right mix of both keeps the heart
In its right place.
Genuine criticism
May be like acid rain,
And may bring along pessimism
Flavoured . . .
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March 24, 2008 11:17 AM EDT --
Why Do I Write? A Response to Ed Nudelman's Article on Vetting
I write partly because I have lived a long and unusual life that I want to record as a part of the amazing history of my times. I . . .
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May 28, 2009 07:15 PM EDT --
Since when does anyone, even at your child's school have the right to interfere in something that is none of their business?? Well, that happened to me today at my son's school.
Apparently, a . . .
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May 03, 2006 04:49 AM EDT --
So, Joseph Poe
You think you're so great
You waltz in unanounced
Trash other people's poems
We do not know you
You, who has been here all of three days
Make that four, counting today
You're . . .
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July 17, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
How do you rate? I mean on Gather, not as a person where I'm sure you rate a solid ten in many people's eyes.
After almost a year on Gather, I find that I've fallen into a pattern . . .
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October 23, 2007 10:36 AM EDT --
This is what happens when you criticize me-everything spins and expands and deepens. The helpful, honest critiques I received on the first version of this made all the difference to . . .
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March 28, 2008 04:30 PM EDT --
So you want to be a critic? I teach organizational psych and how students should prepare employee reviews, etc. Yes it is my day job and most of the students won't remember what I say. . . .
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June 04, 2007 08:18 PM EDT --
It is one thing to point out some mistakes, to help a person look at things from another perspective, yet it is something all together different to point them out in a manner that seems to demean, if even . . .
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February 07, 2008 05:14 PM EST --
I just came across this quote and was blown away by the truth of it.
"To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." -- Elbert Hubbard
This has been a problem for me all . . .
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January 21, 2007 10:14 AM EST --
Giving thoughtful, constructive criticism has got to be one of the hardest, scariest pieces of the communication puzzle, at least in the American cultural milieu.
If and when we ever do . . .
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June 02, 2007 03:48 AM EDT --
For DragonSoul
A poem that speaks to me
touches my soul.
What it says to me
may not be
what is says to you.
Therein lies
its magic.
June, 2007
© Carol LeHane
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June 03, 2009 03:45 AM EDT --
As your new member editor for the middle of the week's Writing Essentials, I'm looking forward to the opportunity to read some great writing and share what I know about the craft. Over time, . . .
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October 26, 2009 04:39 PM EDT --
But don't worry, I am not going to use obscene language. Neither am I going to engage in stalking activity, email harassment, or all those other forbidden activities.
It's just that seeing the H1N1 . . .
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March 22, 2006 09:49 PM EST --
I find negative criticism remarks often irritating and not helpful.
Especially rude are snide comments about spelling or esoteric grammatical errors made about another's comments or . . .
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January 09, 2007 10:25 AM EST --
I Would Really Like to Know – I Think
I have a bad habit of dashing off articles on the spur of the moment. That may be OK for light-hearted random musings, but not for memoirs, or historical . . .
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