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Leigh Stein's avatar

I need to see American Fiction!!

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Ray Downs's avatar

I'm a former journalist, too, and one of the biggest lessons I learned for writing and life in general was to grow a thick skin and learn from mistakes. Whether it's an editor massacring your draft with track changes (but hopefully making it better) or a reader with more knowledge than you schooling you on the topic you thought you knew about, it's best to see misjudgments and mistakes as learning opportunities, not attacks, even if said non-attacks were delivered attack-like.

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