Evon Davis

Workshopping can be tough, but I’ve learned to take everything with a grain of salt for two reasons:  1) people giving critique don’t necessarily read the genre you’re writing in so don’t know how to judge it, and 2) they don’t necessarily know how to critique in a way that’s truly helpful.  
 
It took me a year to write Journey to Artemisia.  I became a better writer over the course of that year.  Now that I’m going back to the beginning, I think it should come so easily, but in some ways it’s still a struggle.  One of the best skills I’m developing is objectivity.  When people critique my work, I’m often resistant at first, but then I step back and I can see where they are right and where they just don’t get it.
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