So, do others use feedback this way?
Oh, absolutely! I don't think there's any one way to use these boards - different authors will get different things out of it.
I very rarely began posting a story before it was finished. I've never worked to an outline and so I usually only had the faintest of ideas as to how I wanted the story to end up.
Along the way, I'd find, as you say, that the feedback here on the boards often changed my mind about where I wanted to go. I've added or expanded the scenes I've planned and incorporated ideas and suggestions that appealed to me that I would never have thought of on my own.
It was always the most fun part of the process for me, bouncing ideas around in the feedback folder.
LabRat
