POV- but not the way you’re thinking

I’ve been reading the classic book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People,*”and I’ve been seeing how it can apply in my personal career. It’s a pretty amazing book. One of the key principles is putting yourself in the other person’s shoes to see what they want out of the situation.

In writing, we as writers ask established writers for advice/critiques, ask agents to represent us, we ask editors to publish us, we ask reviewers to read and review (favorably, hopefully!), we ask other authors to