Russ Linton
Work your ass off. Craft, platform, marketing, submissions, none of it is easy. This will be the hardest thing you have ever done and if it isn't, you aren't doing it right.
Accept criticism and use it to improve. Surround yourself not just with blindly supportive but critically minded people who also happen to want you to succeed and share your goals.
Forget about being the "next big thing" and focus on being as pure of a "you" as possible.
Accept criticism and use it to improve. Surround yourself not just with blindly supportive but critically minded people who also happen to want you to succeed and share your goals.
Forget about being the "next big thing" and focus on being as pure of a "you" as possible.
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