Comments on: Stay Upbeat or Get Beat Up http://www.michellplested.com/irreverentmuse/stay-upbeat-or-get-beat-up/?source=rss Looking at writing from an amateur's perspective Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:29:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Aaron http://www.michellplested.com/irreverentmuse/stay-upbeat-or-get-beat-up/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Aaron Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:16:14 +0000 http://www.michellplested.com/?p=664#comment-361 Aweful? Nobody said it was 'full of awe' and you were made glad? ;-) Critique is one of the scariest things in the world, both giving and receiving. If someone is abrupt enough to say "Ha, U sux!" we disregard them, more times than not. I ask myself constantly if I think I've done enough work to even entertain the notion that my words are good enough for someone to pay money for the privilege of reading them. Same is true of a painter who puts a $1000 sticker beside his painting. If you're not good enough, and you care, you <b>get</b> good enough, and you find out what went wrong, and you suck it up and you fix it, no matter how much it hurts. And I'm right there with you for Nano, as always. Hope to see you at an actual meet this year. ;-) Aweful? Nobody said it was ‘full of awe’ and you were made glad? ;-)

Critique is one of the scariest things in the world, both giving and receiving. If someone is abrupt enough to say “Ha, U sux!” we disregard them, more times than not.

I ask myself constantly if I think I’ve done enough work to even entertain the notion that my words are good enough for someone to pay money for the privilege of reading them. Same is true of a painter who puts a $1000 sticker beside his painting.

If you’re not good enough, and you care, you get good enough, and you find out what went wrong, and you suck it up and you fix it, no matter how much it hurts.

And I’m right there with you for Nano, as always. Hope to see you at an actual meet this year. ;-)

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