I'm guilty of this alot. Sometimes I just write something that in my head I "know" is good only looking for positive feedback. Bad habit.
I don't blame you. Everyone likes to beat their own drum from time to time. It's an act of reaffirmation.
I don’t have a person to give me positive feedback and I don’t want one. There was a guy who read my opening 3 chapters and was embarrassingly nothing but positive. Good for my ego, bad for my writing. We all need validation to different degrees but I want to know more about what’s wrong and how to improve. My measures of success will be in competitions, in getting an agent and in getting published. Difficult levels to achieve but having a friend tell me how good I am is not much of a measurement. I would see your friend gaining followers as a measure of success especially as I assume they are not all people who know her. When I climb out of my hole, it is to see what people I don’t know think. I finally let the guy I referred to above, read my whole novel – it was good for my ego and a small help on editing. He wants to read everything I’ve ever written (not much by the way). I’ve declined. I’m not keen on family reading anything of mine either.
I agree. Much more difficult (I think) to be constructively critical than (gushingly) complimentary. Finding someone who can give you solid feedback is priceless, I reckon. If they can do it in a constructive way, even more so.
