Self-Defeating Attitudes

[varkat]

If you were to ask me the biggest difference between those who make it in this business and those who don’t, I’d say that it’s the ability to listen.  I can’t always tell those who are going to succeed, but I can always see within a sentence or two those who will certainly fail…the people who want you to hear them but not vice versa.  Those who don

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Lucienne Diver on dumb things beginning writers do

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[varkat]

Ah yes, the people who only want praise and refuse to hear anything else....

[paulwoodlin]

For the fun of critiquing others?

[framlingem]

I have, on occasion, heard a little voice in my head saying 'they don't get it!'... it's immediately smacked down by another little voice saying 'that's because you didn't explain it very well. Your fault.'

*grin*

[otterdance]

Good advice! Btw, you're not near those wildfires, are you?

[smoss]

I know I always want to go back and tweak my (as yet unpublished) novel. Though when I first read "Camera Ready" I thought of it as "Would make a great movie!" before I read further. Thought I was in major trouble on that one. :)