Everybody won't like everything you write. Some people won't like anything you write. Get over it.
Stay off an editor's "Life's too short to deal with this person" list. At the same time, don't be a wimp. Practice professionalism.
Don't tell yourself lies about either your strengths or your weaknesses as a person and a writer. Looking yourself in the face is the first step to creating great characters.
Read widely.
from "What I know, for sure ... I think" by Susan Elizabeth Philips
The Writer January 2003
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