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30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World

I learned about this month from Love for the Least, and although I learned about it late, it’s never too late to pray.

You can find prayer points daily at Daily Prayer Themes – 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World (30daysprayer.com) or purchase a PDF of the complete booklet for only $2.50.

“We are in the midst of the greatest turning of Muslims to Christ in 14 centuries of Muslim-Christian interaction. More than 80% of all the Muslim movements to Christ in history have occurred in the past two to three decades, a time period that coincides with the modern prayer movement for Muslims. At the heart of this modern prayer movement is ’30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World.’ Come, join us, and be a part of shaping salvation history!” 

David Garrison, author of A Wind in the House of Islam

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Guest Post: How to Set Up a Productive and Inspiring Writing Space

Being a writer is a beautiful job. It’s creative, fun, and challenging. It also comes with all the perks of working from home or any other place you find inspirational. You can take your work anywhere with you and live as a digital nomad if you choose so. But not all is so light and breezy. Writing and editing jobs typically come with deadlines. And they can be a major cause of stress. Therefore, you will benefit from a space where you can focus and let your creative juices flow unobstructed. That can only be achieved in a good environment. Since most people do a considerable portion of their writing at home, you are probably one of them. Therefore, it’s worth exploring a few ideas on how to set up a productive and inspiring writing space.

Decide where the dedicated space for writing will be

Creating a productive and inspiring writing space is like setting up a home office. However, a writing nook can be more relaxing and creatively decorated. If you are starting with your writing career and are thinking of types of blogs you can try out, one thing is sure – a dedicated writing space will help you come up with ideas for your content and bring them to life. 

The first thing you need to do is find a dedicated space for your writing area. It can be anything from a separate room to a corner of your kitchen island or even a secluded table in your favorite coffee shop. It would probably be best to try out each area to see which one works best. Then, think about the perfect conditions that will help you get into the writing mood. Do you like to work surrounded by others? Should they also be working, so you feel more motivated? Or is complete silence your preferred mode?

Let’s be honest. While you may like to be among people and chatter, coffee cup clunking, and keyboard clicking, writing sometimes requires peace. How often have you begun crafting a perfect metaphor when a sudden unidentified sound broke your train of thought, and you immediately forgot where you were going with it? Thus, it might be wise to pick a space that has a door that, when closed, clearly signals you are in the middle of work.

Nevertheless, whichever space you choose, the important thing is that you know it’s dedicated to your writing and that it’s what you plan to do there. That is the first step to achieving productivity.

Make your writing nook comfortable

Writing and self-editing mean a lot of sitting, so it’s in your best interest to make the space you are in comfortable. Consider investing in an ergonomic chair that will support your back well. Your keyboard should be at an adequate height, so you don’t have to keep your hands in an unnatural position, straining your shoulders and neck. Investing in a good mousepad is also advisable, so your hand can rest comfortably on it when you use the mouse.

You will also need to think about the lighting. It would be best to have a lot of daylight to help you concentrate and keep you awake. On the other hand, if you prefer writing at night, add sufficient artificial lighting. Here, you will also have to choose the type of lights carefully. Steer clear of fluorescent lights because they strain your eyes, and make sure you have enough light fixtures so that dim lighting doesn’t make you drowsy.

Finally, adjust the room temperature. Since you won’t be moving a lot, you can start feeling cold quickly. 

Clutter is the enemy

Nothing is as distracting as clutter. You can close the door, choose the corner of your home with the least foot traffic, have complete silence, and still be all but productive. 

When you set up a productive and inspiring writing space, you can decorate but don’t go overboard. A few photos of your family, some inspirational quotes, and all the necessities you need for writing are enough. Also, keep the desk you work on tidy. Even if you think you don’t care about the mess, your brain subconsciously cares—a lot. In the background, it’s thinking about a chore that hasn’t been done without you realizing it. It can even contribute to writer burnout. So, with a portion of your mind somewhere else, how many words fewer do you think you wrote?

To help you keep your writing nook organized, install enough storage and shelving solutions.

Limit other distractions

People walking around you are a distraction. Clutter lurking from the corner of your desk where you pushed everything when you sat down to write also threatens productivity. But do you know who your worst enemy is? You are.

Yes, the new episode of your latest favorite series has just come out. Social media are calling. And your focus is feeble. So, turn off your phone; the TV has no place in this area anyway, and the noise-canceling headphones have been waiting in the drawer for months. Now is the time to put them to good use. If you like, you can listen to some music. But make sure it’s ambient – lyrics can take your mind someplace else. 

Add a plant

Just looking at a plant or being surrounded by a few pots of flowers can reduce your stress levels and increase creativity. So add some to your office. It doesn’t have to be anything too demanding to look after. If you don’t have a green thumb, you can get a cactus or hanging air plants. All they need is a few sprinkles of water every now and then, and that’s it.

You’ve set up a productive and inspiring writing space; now get to work

Once you set up a productive and inspiring writing space, you will love spending time there. You will realize that you don’t have to make yourself sit down and start working. You will enjoy your time in your peaceful writing nook, and that will reflect in your writing.

About the Author: Anna Mason is a content writer at linkdepartment.com. She loves her work and enjoys every minute she spends in the office she designed in her home. She is a mother of two, and she spends every free minute outside with her kids.The post Guest Post: How to Set Up a Productive and Inspiring Writing Space first appeared on Lillie Ammann, Writer and Editor.

#John316Day

#John316Day (3/16) is a day to share the most famous verse in the Bible.

This year, popular Christian websites FaithGateway.com and BibleGateway.com are partnering with the nation’s pastor and The New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado (@MaxLucado), along with K-LOVE Radio, to encourage Christians to spread the John 3:16 message by simply posting the verse to social media, texting contacts, or sharing the verse in some creative way!

Jonathan Petersen, Bible Gateway Blog

Max Lucado is also offering a free five-session video Bible study on the verse from March 21 through April 24. When you register for the five-week study, you can download free materials to be ready to start on the first day.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16 (ESV)

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Read an Ebook Week: Sale

Back in 2004, Rita Toews and her co-author Alex Domokos found it challenging to sell their novels in ebook format. She thought authors and publishers collaborating together to draw attention to ebooks would help all ebook authors. So she registered Read an Ebook Week in Chases Calendar of Events, making it an official event.

My first novel came out as an ebook in 1999. A group of ebook authors from Texas and Oklahoma joined together to do booksignings in Hastings Bookstores, which no longer exist. We thought that was the ideal location because it was a bookstore, but it also carried lots of electronic items. Instead of talking about our own books, which were on small floppy disks at the time, however, we spent most of our time explaining what an ebook was and showing them our ereaders. We knew we were part of history, that a time would come when everyone knew what an ebook was, and many readers would enjoy them. That has happened now. No longer do people come to me in a waiting room where I’m spending my wait time reading and ask, “What’s that?”

Ebook authors at booksigning in Hastings 1999

But when Rita Toews started Read an Ebook Week, authors were still educating readers about ebooks and trying to convince them to try ebooks. During Read an Ebook Week, readers were encouraged to purchase and read one ebook to see how they liked it. Many retailers offered sales to encourage readers to buy an ebook.

Mark Coker started Smashwords in 2008 so authors could bypass the gatekeepers of publishing who are loath to take a chance on a new author or on a story that doesn’t fit their perceptions of what will sell. I added my first books to Smashwords the following year, when Smashwords had only 6,000 books for sale. Today, Smashwords has published more than 600,000 books in all genres and has become the largest publishing platform in the world for indie authors and small publishers. Smashwords also converts ebooks to all the popular formats and distributes them to dozens of other retailers, such as Apple iTunes and Barnes & Noble.

Smashwords always has a huge sale for Read an Ebook Week, and this year is no different.

You will find nearly 60,000 ebooks discounted from 25% up to 100% (free!). Most of my books on Smashwords are already free. You can find them at Smashwords ��� About Lillie Ammann.

Most of my books were for sale until a few years ago, when I decided to make them all free. One that has been free since it was published in 2009, the novelette, Trapped by Love, has been downloaded almost 30,000 times. One of my favorites is Fern’s Fancies, a romance novel that includes a number of experiences���some quite funny���that happened in my own interior landscape company. The reviews for both of these stories average 5 stars.

My latest client, Maria Socorro Martinez, has her recently released memoir in both English and Spanish on sale at 50% off. This is wonderful story of her experiences as a young teacher in a rural community with no paved roads, no running water, and electricity only two hours each night. Although the book is fairly long, most people say it’s so fascinating, they don’t even realize how long it is.

Whether you are already an ebook aficionado wanting to stock up on new reading material at deeply discounted prices or someone new to ebooks who wants to try that first ebook, I hope you’ll visit the Smashwords sale before it ends at midnight next Saturday.

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Free Devotional for Lent

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Many Christians will attend solemn church services and receive the sign of the cross on their foreheads to demonstrate their penitence.

During the forty days of Lent leading up to Easter, devout believers fast, pray, and give. Fasting is giving up or abstaining from something, such as food, habits, or activities, to make a sacrifice for the Lord. Although Christians pray daily, during Lent, prayers are intensified, perhaps praying for the church, the community, the country, and other people. Jesus gave His life to us, and He tells us to share with others, to help those in need. Giving, also, is something believers do all the time, but even more during Lent.

Being an avid reader of books and listener of audio books, much of my free time is spent reading or listening. Although I tend to read Christian fiction and do my best to avoid anything that is not wholesome, I’m still spending time on entertainment. During Lent, I abstain from fiction of all kinds as well as secular nonfiction. My reading choices during Lent are all Christian nonfiction. That turns time that would normally be focused on my own entertainment into time devoted to learning more about the Lord and deepening my faith.

I also add a special Scripture reading plan to my regular Bible reading. I read each day’s passage, write my personal reflections on what I read, and compose a relevant prayer.

The following year, I turn those personal reflections into a devotional book for Lent. Last year, my reading plan consisted primarily of the parables Jesus told. This year’s devotional is The Parables of Jesus, available as a paperback for $8. The total purchase price is donated to Love for the Least, a movement to share the compassion of Christ with an unreached world. Missionaries in Africa and in the Middle East do amazing humanitarian work and share the Gospel with people who do not know the Lord.

The Parables of Jesus is also available as a free download. The PDF document can be read on your computer or printed on letter-sized paper on your computer’s printer.

I hope my devotions will help you in your spiritual life during Lent.

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The Parables of Jesus: Lenten Devotionals

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Lent is a forty-day season of penitence leading to Easter. Many Christians fast or give up something as a Lenten discipline. Adding extra devotions is another Lenten discipline practiced by many believers.

Each year I choose a special Bible reading plan for Lent. I read the assigned Scripture passage and journal my personal reflections and a prayer. The following year, I publish my personal meditations from the previous Lent.

This year, my Lenten devotionals are The Parables of Jesus.

People like stories, and stories can teach while they entertain. Often listeners pay more attention to stories than to sermons. Perhaps they understand them more easily; maybe they like being entertained. Sometimes they don’t realize there’s a lesson to be learned as they enjoy the entertaining elements of the story.

Jesus taught in stories known as parables. A parable is a short story designed to convey a moral truth through the story. Jesus told parables about everyday experiences of his listeners. The people could easily identify with the characters and events in Jesus’ stories and understood the lessons without Jesus explicitly stating the truths he was teaching.

These forty-seven devotionals (for the forty days of Lent, the six Sundays in Lent, and Easter) include a Scripture, typically a parable told by our Lord, a short meditation on the Scripture, and a brief prayer. Each daily devotion is short but impactful.

If you want to add a spiritual discipline during Lent, read and meditate on the stories Jesus told. Learn the lessons He has hidden in plain sight within the parable. May His blessings abound in your time alone with the Lord.

For each copy sold, I will donate the full price of the book ($8.00) to Love for the Least.

Love for the Least is a MOVEMENT born from the nearly twenty years��� missionary work of its first field workers, dozens of church partners in the US and West from a broad range of traditions and thousands of Believers who pray daily and invest in God���s Kingdom. The mission of L4L is to bring the Good News of the Kingdom to the world���s least, sharing Jesus��� hope and love with them. There are more than 3 billion people on planet, forty percent of all the word���s People Groups, with no access to the Gospel.

lovefortheleast.org

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My Valentine Favorite

Today is Valentine’s Day, and husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends are showing their love for each other in special ways. He may bring flowers or candy; she may cook an elaborate or favorite meal; they may treat themselves to a special outing���a party or dinner at a fine restaurant.

My favorite Valentine’s Day with my husband Jack didn’t include any of those traditional observances. Twenty-four days earlier, on January 22, 1992, I went to the chiropractor for a manipulation and had to be carried out after experiencing a devastating stroke. I spent a week in the hospital and a month in an in-patient rehabilitation facility. If you do the math, you will realize that I was in the rehabilitation hospital on Valentine’s Day. As usual, I spent the day in therapy: hours of physical therapy and occupational therapy, relieved at the end of the day by an hour of recreational therapy.

That day, my occupational therapy was different from the usual exercise routines. I spent the time in the facility’s fully functional kitchen. I wasn’t able to go shopping for the ingredients, but I made a grocery list and the therapist brought in everything I requested. I cooked a pot roast with vegetables in the Crockpot. I chopped the vegetables, seasoned the meat, assembled the one-dish meal in the cooker, and set it to cook while I went to my other therapy sessions. That sounds very easy, and it always had been the many times I had cooked this before. I liked to make that dish because I could start it before I left for work, and it would be ready when I got home. Besides that, it was one of Jack’s favorite meals. However, it’s not as easy to make from a wheelchair with seasonings and utensils out of reach and with my dominant arm and hand not fully useful after being totally paralyzed. Preparing this simple dish took three times or more as long as usual.

At the end of my therapy that Valentine’s Day, I changed into my prettiest workout outfit, the only clothes I could dress myself in, went to the kitchen, and turned off the Crockpot. The roast was perfectly tender, and the vegetables were perfect. With the help of a long reacher/grabber tool, I got plastic dishes out of the cabinet and set the small table. I brewed tea and filled tall glasses, leaving room for ice. Then I returned to my room to wait for Jack.

When he arrived, he expected me to wheel my way to the dining room with him. Typically, patients were served meals in our rooms, but Jack had arranged for my meals to be delivered to the dining room. He went through the serving line to buy his meal, then we ate together.

This evening, however, I led him to the kitchen in the therapy department. Jack was confused, but he followed me until we arrived at the tiny kitchen. He saw the two place settings and the Crockpot, and he realized what was going on. I added ice to the tea glasses and served us each meat and vegetables from the slow cooker. I’m sure I spilled on the table, but all I remember is how proud I was for cooking this special meal and how excited and proud Jack was to see my improvement. He raved about the meal as if it were the best meal I had ever served him, and he ignored the clumsy accidents.

Through our forty-five years of marriage, we had a number of romantic Valentine’s dates to outstanding restaurants, but nothing ever tasted as good as that simple pot roast. I never felt more love than my husband showed me sharing that simple meal in the tiny kitchen in a rehab hospital. We were blessed that I was recovering and that we would have more years together. We were thankful that we loved each other as much as ever even though I was in a wheelchair and had a lot of deficits. We were delighted that we could still share ordinary moments and activities with joy.

Throughout my rehabilitation, which continued with many months of outpatient therapy and home exercises, Jack devoted himself to my care. He was thirteen and a half years older than me, and before we were married, the priest who did our premarital counseling talked a lot about our age difference. He asked me if I was willing to take care of an old man at the end of his life. I assured the priest I was ready for that responsibility, as whatever time Jack and I had together would be worth it. In fact, I did care for him at the end of his life and consider it a blessing. However, long before that, he cared for me during my stroke recovery.

Jack had an amazing ability to understand what I could and couldn’t do. If I asked him to do something for me that he thought I was capable of doing on my own, he gently refused to help me until I had tried doing it myself. Sometimes I would complain that it was hard, but he didn’t accept that excuse. If I tried and really could not do whatever it was, Jack would do it for me, but only after he was convinced that I had sincerely tried. I believe that I accomplished much more because of Jack’s insistence that I try. If he had done things for me that I didn’t want to do because they were hard, I would not have re-learned to do many of them or I would not have regained the strength and ability needed for the task.

Valentine’s Day is a good day to enjoy special gifts and treats and activities. But wearing a plain jogging suit and sharing an ordinary meal served directly from a slow cooker can be just as romantic. Love is all you need for a perfect Valentine’s Day.

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Defrauding the Government and Compromising Security

I recently read an article about a group of Navy officers and defense contractors who compromised our nation’s security for bribes. It reminded me of an experience I had on my very first job out of college.

When I couldn’t find a job in counseling with only a bachelor’s degree, I took the exam for federal employment. I was hired at Kelly Air Force Base as an item manager.

The department I worked in was responsible for ensuring that the parts for the R-4360 engine were available when needed on the overhaul line. There were two types of parts: EOQ or economic order quantity and major parts. EOQ items were things like screws that were ordered in quantities of thousands. The item manager monitored the inventory, and when it went below a certain level, the item manager ordered a minimum order of thousands of the items, whatever the economic order quantity was. On the other hand, major parts were monitored and ordered individually.

My specific responsibility was the crankshaft for the engine, the highest-priced part. Each crankshaft cost more than $5,000, which was a lot of money in the late 1960s. I had to make a presentation to the commanding general every time we needed to order crankshafts to get approval for the purchase.

In the days before ubiquitous computers, I received a printout of a spreadsheet showing the replacement rate of the crankshaft multiplied by the number of engine overhauls that were scheduled in next quarter. The replacement rate equaled the percentage of crankshafts that were condemned and replaced when engines were overhauled.

Once I had the report showing how many crankshafts we needed, I determined how often we needed to order and how many crankshafts we needed in each order. I presented this information in a meeting of my superiors, all the way up to the general in command of the base. When the general signed off on the report, I submitted the purchase order to the purchasing department.

Wanting a clear understanding of why I was spending millions of dollars on a crankshaft on behalf of the government, I asked a lot of questions and did some research. I learned that the R-4360 engine was used extensively by the Air Force, but it was an old engine. Overhauls were scheduled on a regular basis to ensure that the engines didn’t fail. Each part of the engine was carefully inspected, and if the overhaul facility determined that the part was likely to fail before the next scheduled inspection, the part was condemned and replaced. A government inspector did quality control checks to confirm the overhaul facility’s condemnations. If I ordered the right number of crankshafts, there would always be an adequate supply of crankshafts to replace as needed.

I started to notice a trend: the replacement rate was higher each quarter. Why was that happening? If the engine was completely overhauled to function like new, shouldn’t the replacement rate remain in the same range with only slight fluctuations from quarter to quarter? However, the increases were significant each quarter, and we had to buy more crankshafts each time.

I asked questions of a number of people. Having to buy twice as many crankshafts this year compared to last didn’t seem right to me. Essentially, I was told to mind my own business and stick to my job. My job was to use the data I was provided to order the right number of crankshafts. I was not allowed to ask questions. My actions were limited to having crankshafts sitting at the overhaul facility when they were needed.

After two years, I found an employment counseling position with the state employment agency and moved on from Kelly AFB. A year or so later, I saw an article in the newspaper. The defense contractor in Florida who overhauled the R-4360 engine had been raided. A number of people���including the CEO and workers and supervisors on the overhaul line���were arrested, along with the government quality control inspector. The company had been condemning perfectly good crankshafts, putting new crankshafts in the engines being overhauled, and selling the used but good crankshafts to Israel.

If anyone had been willing to listen to a twenty-one-year girl in her first job just trying to understand, this scheme might have been discovered two or three years earlier.

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World Read Aloud Day

The first Wednesday in February is World Read Aloud Day. The day is established to encourage literacy, especially among children, around the world. Being able to read and write can be an important part of an individual’s success.

This day resonates with me because I see significant value in reading aloud. Parents reading to very young children builds an interest in reading and hearing stories that will encourage literacy as children grow. There’s an added benefit���when parents read to children, a strong bond can grow between the parents and kids. As the children learn to read, they can still have bedtime stories, but they can read to their parents. It continues the tradition, develops the children’s reading skill, and helps the family bond grow stronger.

As an editor, I recommend authors read their manuscripts aloud as part of the editing process. Ideally, one person reads, and another person follows along in the manuscript. My dear friend, who was also my editor for Dream or Destiny, visited me for several days, and we took turns reading aloud. We did this for my book and a couple of hers. The reader might stumble over an awkward sentence or a missing word. The listener might catch that the reader didn’t read what was written in the manuscript, but instead she read what made sense to her. At that point, we stopped and considered what was written compared to what was read and decided if we needed to change a word or a phrase. Reading the manuscript is time-consuming, so I don’t do it with my clients. However, I recommend that they find a friend or family member to partner with them on reading aloud.

Lillie reading at book signing

Of course, authors often read aloud from their work at book signings and other appearances. When Dream or Destiny was released, I had a few book signings and read aloud from my Kindle. That was the most popular part of the signing. I picked a very suspenseful passage from the book and ended with a cliffhanger, so guests were eager to get the book and find out what happened.

And for everyone, reading aloud is just plain fun���especially if you choose the books carefully. Using different voices to different characters and perhaps adding more sound effects and drama to the reading can be entertaining for the readers and listeners.

Enjoy reading something fun aloud today!

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Writer’s Guide to Handling Criticism: Guest Post from Dale Dyer

As a writer, you must learn how to deal with criticism. And if you have worked with an editor ever before, you know how difficult it can be. You work hard on a piece, you feel good about it, and then you get it back covered in red ink with a request to rewrite half of it. It’s not a pleasant experience, but you need to learn to deal with it. To help you out, we’ve put together a writer’s guide to handling criticism.

You need to realize that this is a part of the job, and it happens to every writer sooner or later.��Failure and rejection will make you a better writer��if you know how to cope. If you can hear what they’re saying, you’ll��make your self-editing better, and you’ll get fewer complaints about your articles in the future. Here are some strategies you should use to get there.

Separate Yourself from Your Work

No matter how much you like your job, don’t forget that it’s still just a job. Your writing isn’t an extension of yourself, and when the editor criticizes it,��you mustn’t take it personally. They’re not saying that you aren’t hardworking, but rather that you should improve some things in the article. It’s as simple as that. Of course, you shouldn’t take criticism lightly, but be sure to get some distance from your work first. Think about what the editor is saying, and the chances are that you’ll see it makes sense.��It’s their job to help you get through to your readers, so listen to them.

Get Beta Readers

If you have a content strategy in place, you know who you’re writing for. You know your target readers, and you know all the��best ways to use quality content��to get to them. However,��your editor might have a different idea��about what you should do. If you don’t find them approachable or forgiving, you might be afraid to send in your work.�� In this scenario, it’s a good idea to��show what you did to someone whose opinion you value and trust. It can be a more experienced colleague or a friend with an eye for spotting typos and other mistakes. Beta readers are there to give you honest and free feedback that you can use to improve your work before sending it out.��

Be Confident

If you want to become a better writer, you’ll have to build up your confidence. Learning to trust yourself is an essential part of handling criticism, but you have to be careful about what you do with that courage. 

We’re not saying that you should go out and confront your editors, asking them to publish the article as is or else. That kind of behavior will get you nowhere. Instead,��make a case for what you wrote��if you disagree with your editor’s opinion. Stay calm and explain why you did it one way and not another. And if your editor points out some obvious mistakes,��correct them right away. Work on developing��an attitude of gratitude��and embracing criticism. You’re a professional, and you need to handle these things as one.��

Learn From Your Mistakes

We’re all humans, and we all make mistakes. If you want to become a better person and writer, you need to learn from these.��Take notes of the feedback you get, regardless of whether it’s good or bad, and use that notes in your future projects. It’ll help you remember all the things you have learned from different editors, and in the long run, it’ll help you��avoid blogger burnout. Going over your old notes and adding some new ones won’t take you more than a few minutes each week, and it will do a lot in��moving your career forward.��

Accept It and Move On

The final point in our��writer’s guide to handling criticism��is accepting the feedback and moving on. If no one liked your article, it’s not the end of the world. Learn what you can from it, and get onto the next piece. It’ll be better than the last one, and the one after it will blow it out of the park. Work more, work smart, and your writing will become better.

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Author Bio:

Dale Dyer is a journalist and a passionate writer. He’s been freelancing for years, and at the moment, he’s working with Digital Dot New York. He likes helping people build their brands from the ground up, and he loves that he can be creative in the process.��

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