Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach | Since 1996
Coaching for ambitious creative professionals
Photo by tj scenes It's notoriously difficult for artists and creatives to critique their own work - we put so much of ourselves into it, we find it hard to achieve the necessary critical …
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Giving feedback on creative work has been a hot topic here over the last few weeks. To wrap up the subject (for now) here are the links to my recent feedback posts plus a selection of other people's …
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There's an art to listening to criticism or praise of your work without getting carried away by elation or despair - and let's face it, without stomping off in a huff. Having looked at How not to give …
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About 15 years ago I was lucky enough to have a one-to-one writing tutorial with the poet Seamus Heaney. This was before he won the Nobel Prize, but he was still an acknowledged superstar, someone …
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My last post looked at How Not to Give Feedback on Creative Work, with an example of breathtaking clumsiness from the Emperor in Amadeus. To recap, this is how the Emperor made a pig's ear of …
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Giving feedback on creative work is a tricky challenge, for two main reasons: Artists and creatives identify very closely with their work When a creative worker puts a piece of work in front of …
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