: 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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I would echo other posters' sentiment. It sounds like you have a beta reader instead of several. I would encourage you seek out other beta readers. Or, I would suggest a developmental editor, if your current beta reader is not a professional.
A friend of mine beta read my first novel. He had beta-read for a lifelong friend who was a well-published author. The author so trusted my friend's opinion that if my friend told him to change something, he would. But, they knew each other for decades, and my friend was the perfect persona for his target audience. I would argue that is the exception.
His advice for me? "Developmental editor."
My developmental editor gave me 6 major thing to change. It caused me to rip out a sub-plot so I could substitute another. Much better.

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