: Re: How to stick to your vision when you’re highly suggestible? As a person, I'm a bit of a people-pleaser. I tend to bend over backward to avoid conflict and make people happy. I've reached

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Writing is like most other creative processes. A previous answer is right -- people know if they don't like it, but they don't really know what is wrong.
Listen to the emotional content of the feedback rather than the analysis, but, especially if you are still writing the first draft, don't listen too closely, nor too quickly. Get your thoughts written. Write to your plan. Let the story unfold on the page until you reach your end.
With some time behind you, contemplate the feedback from early readers. Re-read your work. If the places early readers were uneasy, or distracted, or confused don't flow as you thought they would, consider changes. If the reader didn't like a plot point, don't change the plot, but maybe add a word or two that supports your point and refocuses the reader's emotion where you want it.
Ultimately, you are the author. The story is yours. If you tell it cleanly, clearly, and with emotional truth, many will enjoy the telling.
Some will not. Some will object to the subject. Can you make the subject important to them? Some will find your characters offensive. Can you make your readers appreciate the offensive characters for the qualities you find in them? Some may hate you for bringing your work into the world. Wow. That's impact. Congratulations!
You've heard this before, but don't start editing and rethinking until you finish the first draft. If you think a different viewpoint or voice or anything else is the better way to tell the story, start over with that new perspective. Don't edit your partial first draft into a different form. Everything will suffer. Better to give yourself the gift of blank paper and permission to start again on a new project.
If you are in the middle of the first draft now, remember the general principle that "First Drafts Stink". The only good attribute a first draft can have is that it is finished. Only when finished have you charted the course of the story and characters. Only when finished can you see, from a distance, where some turns are too sharp or some character evolution assaults credulity.
With the first draft finished, then listen to your readers who have sampled You have many chances to change things, but only one chance to tell this story for the first time.

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