How To Know When to Follow Suggestions From a Beta Reader

Not all feedback is equal or meaningful

Stephanie D. Rondeau
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readApr 11, 2024

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Getting feedback on your work is one of the hardest—yet most important—parts of being a writer.

I can edit my own work until I’m blue in the face, but someone else’s brain will always be able to spot things in my work that I can’t.

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MS, ATC, CSCS. Kidlit author and editor, query liaison. Mostly writes about writing, health and wellness, feminism, and parenting. Occasionally funny.