The One Little Change That Saved My Book

While I was writing my book Practice Makes PURPOSE: Six Spiritual Practices That Will Change Your Life and Transform Your Community, I used to go to a weekly writer's group and read passages that I was working on. At first, I got terrible feedback. The other writers in the group gave me very tough criticism. People told me they felt judged, and a few folks got visibly upset by what I had written. I used to leave the group feeling hurt and misunderstood, like no one was getting what I was tryi...