What Do I Do About That?

Just WOW. Brilliant on every level. Personal (not dropping to his level) compassion (understanding something was behind his actions) the writer (possibly creating a character) Integrity (to yourself and the cashiere) LOVE you, Thank you for sharing!

I wrote a book. Now what?

I write a lot. I make mistakes and I correct them. I try and I fail. I’ll try again until I succeed. It’s not easy to take something and show it to the world. It’s hard. There are outside forces one must face. Someone asked me what I do about the outside forces that affect my writing, my tenacity and my emotional state.

1. Rejection
2. Opinions good or bad
3. Degrading Criticism
4. Constructive Criticism.
5. Doubt
6. Fear
7. Jealousy
8. Sabotage
9. Help and kindness
10. Encouragement
11. Trolls and haters

There is so much more I could list. The bottom line is no matter what a person does there will be things that help and things that hurt. I can’t say what you should do about either, it is a personal thing on how to handle them. What I can do is tell you what I do.

Recently I had an encounter with a man at a…

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