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Tobber, Over and over I have heard from writers, who have been published, that you need to read and you need to write. Surely writing classes and endless tips can be helpful. Listening in class would have benefited me, I do not doubt, but here I sit. If you are disappointed with what is available on Writing dot Com you might think too of what you are putting in to it. In my experience there is nothing quite as revealing about my own writing as seeing my own faults in the writing of others. I have never had as forceful a revelation of my own shortcomings as pointing it out in others, once, twice, who knows how many times it takes sometimes, but then you realize that the fingers not pointing out the fault are pointing back at you and then a writer with flaws can improve. As such I have become more critical, not less. Perhaps you have received such a review and wished you hadn't. Do you really need encouragement? If you intend to write professionally I suspect it won't be with the kind encouragement of those to whom you wish to sell your work. Take critique as a gift and be willing to point out what you see and correct the same faults that you discover lurking in your own treasured babies. If you want to get better. Review. LSO |