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USING CRITICISM also, check out style tips
First, remember that you are the author and you have the final say on any recommended changes by anyone, including me. Then, seriously consider the advice you got.
Clarifying: Use readers' feedback to identify unclear spots and figure out what information is missing. Then suppoly it, as artfully, simply, and concretely as possible. Confusion occurs if you leave out important information, make mechanical errors regarding punctuation or paragraphing, or try too hard to "show rather than tell." The solution is not to give up on that objective. Try using context, reactions of other characters, gestures, and descriptions to make your point.
Mark trouble spots that readers pointed out. Tead the story aloud and mark places where you lose your breath. Shorten or change long or fancy-sounding words. Minimize adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. Simplify sentences. Eliminate the passive voice. Delete end of scene summaries and tying up of unimportant loose ends. Think of the scene as a movie, and just cut to the next action.
Consider Anton Chekhov's advice:
Fledgling authors frequently should do the following: bend the notebook in half and tear off the first half...Normally beginners try to "lead into the story" as they say, and half of what they write is unnecessary. One ought to write so that the reader understands the progress of the story, from the characters' conversations, from their actions. Try to rip out the first half of the story. You'll only have to change the beginning of the second half a little bit and the story wiill be totally comprehensible.
To eliminate melodrama and sentimentality, develop your characters fully, giving them the same or more attention than the dramatic events, and cut down the number and intensity of dramatic events.
If you need to "show" more, "tell" less, try to eliminate all the explaining by narrator and characters and force yourslef to find other ways of conveying the information.