Oooooo. Oooooo. I'm wincing from your description, so hard I don't think I can even bear to read it.
I was lucky: I got a talk from one of my writing mentors very early in my career (Tim Powers) who felt it important to tell all us budding hopeful writers at Clarion that we had to remember to pay attention not only to our writing, but how we conducted ourselves as decent, considerate human beings who didn't allow ourselves to get too puffed-up with ourselves. I've always been so grateful for that wisdom, because it has kept me from being tempted to act badly in ways I've since seen other writers act. And yeah, I can get really, really hurt when the critics get savage, but good heavens, I know enough not to pitch a fit publicly!
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Date: 2004-09-22 05:05 am (UTC)I was lucky: I got a talk from one of my writing mentors very early in my career (Tim Powers) who felt it important to tell all us budding hopeful writers at Clarion that we had to remember to pay attention not only to our writing, but how we conducted ourselves as decent, considerate human beings who didn't allow ourselves to get too puffed-up with ourselves. I've always been so grateful for that wisdom, because it has kept me from being tempted to act badly in ways I've since seen other writers act. And yeah, I can get really, really hurt when the critics get savage, but good heavens, I know enough not to pitch a fit publicly!