Overcoming Feedback Fears to Enhance Your Writing

In collaboration with Creative Questers Munich:
The Art of Using Feedback – integrating constructive criticism without losing your voice

We're excited to welcome the accomplished author and IP lawyer, Ella Voss. Join us for a valuable session where Ella will share her insights on the art of giving and receiving feedback in the world of writing. As authors, the ability to receive and utilize feedback is crucial for growth and success. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your creative journey with her unique perspective.

More about the event:
Ella hosted a private feedback group for several years. Authors met twice a month to share their work and provide constructive criticism.
The big lesson learned was this: Many people are gifted writers full of sparkling ideas, producing amazing first drafts. However, many never make it to the finish line because they lack the ambition or the techniques to edit on the basis of constructive feedback.

After the wild ride of the first draft, good writing typically requires extensive and relentless revising and editing. Even the most talented writer benefits greatly from sharing her/his/their work and from taking on board the feedback received. But hearing others criticize your work is tough, editing is a very personal process. Writers often get discouraged too early or fear losing their authentic voice and end up making only a few cosmetic changes to their work, if at all.

Ella will share techniques for:

1. Developing the mindset to work with feedback without losing yourself.
2. How to deal with feedback that seems overly harsh or toxic.
3. How to know when you are done editing.
4. And finally: How to provide constructive criticism in a writing group (giving and taking typically go hand in hand).

There will be an opportunity for attendees to share their experiences and tips.

About our host:
Ella's debut novel, Like a Fox to a Swallow, was published in 2021 and was longlisted for the Devon-Cornwall-International-Novel Prize. Ella's journey as a writer has been shaped by her experiences living in Geneva, London, and Chennai, where she drew inspiration from her encounters with love and life. She is set to release her second book, Almost Happy, a collection of stories and personal essays, by the end of October 2023. Ella's long short story, "The Germanic Nights," is also scheduled to appear in Straylight Magazine in Spring 2024. All her stories have been written with the loving support of Munich writing groups.

In her daytime job, Ella Voss is an IP lawyer. When not writing, she is most likely found cooking for her friends or running with her greyhound in the English Garden.