8 Types of Readers That Will Critique Your Work

In the writing process, you're going to run into a place where you need outside feedback. Their job is to read your story and give you thoughtful criticism. Your job is to filter through all of their notes to figure out what is valuable and work to revise or continue your story. No matter their Reader type, not all of their feedback will be valuable/worthless.

This is certainly not a comprehensive list of readers you'll run into, but these are the approximate and common groups that I've gotten feedback from.

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Why People Are Upset About Ilvermorny on J.K. Rowling's Pottermore

Harry Potter fans have undoubtedly heard of the new information written by J.K. Rowling on Pottermore regarding other wizarding schools around the world.

 

In addition to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Scotland), Beauxbatons Academy of Magic (France), and Durmstrang Institute (Bulgaria), which all appeared in the series, we now have Mahoutokoro (Japan), Uagadou (apparently all of Africa), Castelobruxo (Brazil), Koldovstoretz (Russia), and the currently infamous Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (North America).

 

Attentions given to the three former schools are nothing compared to a full back story for Ilvermorny. Mahoutokoro recieves two paragraphs; Uagadou, three, including unnamed and unnumbered additional schools also in Africa, though it reads as if they are no longer around; and Castelobruxo, two and a footnote on Bill Weasley's pen pal. Koldovstoretz didn't even have any information on the Pottermore page, which claimed 11 magical schools but named only six. Rowling has also hinted at an Australian school, but no official information on that is currently available.

 

Now, the writing on Ilvermorny begins with a somewhat brief - though more extensive than any of the other schools - description of the founder's childhood. Isolt, the founder, fled to America from her evil aunt, and then further into the New World from the Puritans who surely would not have accepted a witch among them (Salem, anyone?). And here we begin with the problems.