Sometimes I just want to say to the certain friend:

[morreth]

- Go home and grow yourself a spine, for the fuck's sake! It takes a spine to be the writer! It takes courage and steadfastness and patience! How dare you call yourself a writer, being unable to withstand a slight shadow of critic? How dare you write on boldness and badassery, being such a boneless jellyfish?!

Alas, since she is such an oyster with no shell, I cannot say it, afraid to harm her. My bad, my bad.