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"I really want to make this better; please could you tell me just one thing I could improve?"

This helps take the pressure off: you're not looking for a thorough dissection, but something that will take much less of the reader's time.

Like you, I find that a simple, "What do you think?" always gets back a polite, "Very nice, thanks." I do have a few readers with some experience as informal copy-editors, who can return a page with useful notes all over it, spotting typos and complex over-running sentences. But for someone without that experience, who hasn't been asked in advance to review, then asking them to choose just a single point is the most effective way I've found to get more feedback.

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