Part of being an author is critiquing. Not just your own stuff, but your peers. Your partners in scribe, your sounding boards, the only people in the world who seem to GET you. One of the many kernels of advice given to me by published authors is to have your manuscript read by as many people as possilbe. Find people outside your demographic, who aren't your normal audience, find friends who are readers--not writers, definitely have your writer friends read it as well, and by all means, if a ...
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