"Feedback is essential to succeeding in writing. Feedback should not be good nor bad, but helpful enough for you, as a writer, to get inspired and not let the feedback write the story for you. It is your story after all!" -OhNoItsTheGrineer
Feedback works best as a flashlight, not a steering wheel. It points out what's dark or confusing without deciding where you should walk next. That distinction matters because your story lives in your instincts, and a reader's job is only to tell you where those instincts didn't land clearly on the page, not to hand you new ones. Say a friend tells you your villain feels flat. The useful move isn't copying their fix idea, it's asking yourself why the flatness is there and rediscovering the character through your own lens. The caution: don't swing so far into ownership that you dismiss every note as someone else's opinion. If three different readers snag on the same scene, that's not noise to protect your ego from, that's signal worth sitting with honestly.
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