William C. Pennington
Learn to take critique from others. Lizard skin is required to shake off the impulse to defend what you've written when your writing group tells you it needs to be rewritten or deleted completely.
The first critique of the opening 500 words of Honey Ko was four words: You have good pace. The second critique was 1500 words and humbled me. I thought my writing was the Gold Standard. That I wasn't nearly as good as I thought was a hard lesson to learn. But I persevered and learned.
The first critique of the opening 500 words of Honey Ko was four words: You have good pace. The second critique was 1500 words and humbled me. I thought my writing was the Gold Standard. That I wasn't nearly as good as I thought was a hard lesson to learn. But I persevered and learned.
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