Chapter 29A Fool-proof Way to Avoid Criticism
Let me ask you a question. Imagine if every piece of written work you had ever done at school or at work was made public to the world and people were free to pass comment on it. So that's every piece of homework, every essay, exam paper, report, client proposal etc. Not only that, but imagine if the comments people made about your work, whether positive or negative, encouraging or nasty, could be read by anyone else.
Let that thought sink in for a moment.
Seriously, how would you feel?
It would be a weird feeling, to have your work scrutinized so publicly, wouldn't it? But for an author it's not weird – it's reality.
I first started writing books in the early 1990s. It was a world before Facebook, ...
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