Perhaps, if I was just a little bit stronger...

[emeraldwilwarin]

Once again it's been too long since my last entry. You'll have to forgive these drawn out absences, but when I see my friends list full of these articulate, thoughtful, heartfelt entries I feel like I have nothing of any real significance to say. I mean, the crap is the same, it's just a different day in a different season. But still, I don't like

Comments

[jehscribbler]

No you're not! You are a very good writer. You have room to grow--every writer does. In fact, I'm not sure where the 'other people' you mention are being published with no editing of their work, but I seriously doubt then that they are working with a really good editor-publisher. Sounds like yours is really taking you seriously enough to work with you to bring out all of your talent.

Your love and passion for writing will help you to improve and become even better. And you are not the only writer with a fragile ego--I read a lot of writers' autobiographies when I was younger, looking for ideas about how to become a writer, and I can tell you that hiding under the covers/raging at critics/refusing to read any reviews of their work/never talking about it until it was published, etc, etc, were all ways in which writers talked about dealing with the stress of feeling judged. And many talked about how the most important thing about the editor they worked with was that person's ability to reassure them and to give them advice and edit their writing without knocking their ego into a heap. The best editors seem to be those who develop a real understanding of the author and who are able to work with the author as an equal where each can appreciate the other's opinion and ideas, but where they recognize that finally the work is the author's and the final decisions have to be the author's.