Are You Listening to Other Writers?

A good place to start is with other writers, particularly people who are writing the same kinds of things. For example, I was at lunch today with my critique partners and I had sent them a bunch of pages that had taken me months to write. And one of my critique partners was trying to be very nice and she said, that moment when he does the thing, I just wasn't, that was the only thing I wasn't 100% sure about.