Whose Opinion Matters

[metteharrison]

List of People Whose Opinion on Your Writing Doesn’t Matter

1. Your mother, father, or any of your siblings.
2. Your spouse or your in-laws.
3. Your own children.
4. Your BFFs.
5. Your high school English teacher.
6. Your college English teacher.
7. A fancy writer who said once in a talk you remember not to write about fairies.
8. All the agents who have rejected you.
9. Someone offering to take your money to give you a blurb, review, or to fix your grammar and “edit” your manuscript for submission.
10. Your writing group.

List of People Whose Opinion on Your Writing Does Matter:

1. You
2. Possibly: your agent or editor.