Constructive criticism is always good. I've had people flat out lambaste me before on my writing, while at the same time providing constructive criticism, and in the end I think it's made me better by helping me identify problems and fixing them. The mental checklist I go through now when writing is incredibly complex and long. But it's helped me get better and better. I'm now at a point where I can write stuff off the cuff with the same quality that my "finished" works were as little as 5 years ago.
So yeah, seek out some good, constructive criticism, the scathing, but useful kind, and then grow from that.
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