How to Critique Your Friend’s Writing (Without Losing Your Friendship!)

Nina Jervis
4 min readApr 21, 2021
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

If you’re friends with someone who writes, you might be familiar with the dreaded question: “Can you read this for me, and let me know what you think?”

Instead of responding with a bright eyed, “of course!” your palms start sweating in anticipation of what you’re going to say.

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Nina Jervis

Writer and professional empathiser (not necessarily in that order).