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by yesenadam
3079 days ago
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Aha thanks. (Well, nothing can be removed from the web - still accessible via the WaybackMachine...) Have you read Steven Pressfield's Nobody Wants To Read Your Shit? An entertaining read. Maybe will help you take it less personally that no-one seems to want to read/hear you. >>There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this: NOBODY WANTS TO READ YOUR SH*T. Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional. “When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs—the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with every sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?"<< |
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"I spent a lot of years hoping that if I did something good for other people, it would come back to me somehow. I am currently realizing this was a really naïve idea"
To me, it doesn't sound naive enough! Sounds selfish.. Isn't knowing you are doing good for people enough? Isn't that something coming back to you? I've noticed a similar thing in people who say they believe "what goes around, comes around" as a reason for being a good person, without noticing that, well, it isn't really ethical behaviour then, it's an indirect way of being selfish. Christianity is infected with a similar thing re getting to heaven.
edit: ohh, also I guess I assumed you are new on here (like me), I see you are very far from that.