Silence Red 7 42x42" oil/cold wax on panel © 2013 Janice Mason Steeves Two weeks ago, Rebecca Crowell and I decided to write a co-blog post in a conversational format, about Visual Language and the Art of Critique. That conversation sparked many thoughtful comments, some of which were posted here on my blog and some of which were sent to me personally. Two of my writer friends, Sandra Campbell and Kim Echlin wrote comments about the interconnections between intuition, technique and critique that I felt were too important to be hidden away in the comments section of the blog post. I asked them if we could continue this conversation about how writer's work with feedback. Sandra Campbell' s novel Getting to Normal (www.sandracampbell.ca) was NOW Toronto magazine’s choice for best books 2001. Her new work, The Pig and the Soprano , inspired by the life of Georgina Stirling, is a tale of the 19th century soprano who dared a...