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“Get a website profesionally designed - DONT do it yourself. The fact that you ADVERTISE web design on here astounds me, as a professional web site designer I am apalled by your complete disregard of WW3 standards.”

The fact is, I’ve hired “profesionals” in the past and lost so much valuable traffic that I hastily hauled my old versions back. What really ticks people like this off is that right now if you go to Google and type “how to start your own website and make money from it” into the search box, TALE WINS comes in in second place, not him - or her as the case may be. I’m sure that must be a bitter pill to swallow, and it has been to many others since 1998 as my pages have consistently been in the top 20 spots since that date. 

Sure, I know I’m a dinosaur and that Tale Wins is being wiped out as the huge corporations move in to claim ownership of the Internet. But I’ll tell you what, I’ve bloodied a whole lot of big noses over the years and it’s been fun while it lasted.  Even now my Google ranking is in the top 10 on 50 different categories.

So,,, let this be a lesson to you.. even if you don’t know everything there is to know about the task in front of you, JUMP IN. Get started. Keep moving, and do the best you can.

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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.  Woodrow Wilson

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Are YOU
Ready For Criticism?

You can take it for a given fact: 
If you ever do stick your nose up above ground level Somebody on this earth is not going to like everything you write either, and they will go to great pains to tell the whole world about it. 

It is probably true that when they curl their lips back and say, "DUH" they have done told everything they know about the subject. 

Let's face facts here. 
#1, you're going to be wrong sometimes. 
#2, Even when you are 100% right, Cutting you down to their size will make some people feel taller.

Learn to live with it.  And don't ever try to educate people like this, because when "DUH" is 97.2% of their vocabulary, you will NEVER convince them that the sun rises in the east on Tuesdays even if you should labor all the days of your life.

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The important thing is, not to feel like you are the only one that ever gets criticized.  Others, and many of them well known, have smarted in their turn over words hurled at their head. 

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. 
Theodore Roosevelt.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified and misunderstood.  This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.  The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.  Elbert Hubbard

George Washington was criticized so harshly while in the presidency that he left the limelight of public office vowing the press would never have him to kick around again.  He was also plagued with self doubts throughout his career.

"Such is my situation that if I were to put the bitterest curse on an enemy this side of the grave I would put him in my place.  I see the impossibility of doing any essential service to the cause by continuing in command, and yet I am told that if I quit the command inevitable ruin will follow from the distractions that will ensue.  In confidence I tell you that I never was in such a divided, unhappy state since I was born."  George Washington.

I don't care what kind of writing you do, the more public attention you receive, the faster and heavier the criticism you will find is showered upon you, your work, your stance, and your precepts.

Here is my policy for dealing with critics..

  1. If they are just cussing and fussing, hollering from the bushes with obscure denunciations among their so-called friends, gently ignore them. I say "gently" because even a half wit will be listened to by people too lazy to think for themselves, thus making one harping fool a worse enemy to have than all the close-lipped Solomons on earth combined.
  2. If their comments are specific enough to evaluate; study their remarks and thank them even for their stinging ridicule, especially if you realize they are right.   All too well do I remember one secretary saying she could write an article better than I had turned in.  I looked at her writing, and she was right.  She could.
  3. If what they say actually helps, pat them on the back, and ask for more as soon as you can take it.
  4. Remember my epigram: The only thing worse than being criticized is finding out nobody cared enough to correct me.
     

You've seen those signs on back of trucks saying:  "Tell me how I'm driving."  That's the sign of a very insecure driver, constantly needing reassurance from everyone on the road that they are doing things at least halfway right.

Don't ever depend on non professionals to evaluate how well your stories drive. 

In fact, if you believe in your work with all your heart, don't let ANYone's good or bad evaluation deter you from that belief. 

On the other hand, If you need help and know it, don't be afraid to ask.

Click HERE for a whole book of excellent advice for writers, about writing and selling what you write.I constantly hear the advice to QUIT rewriting your work when you have invested all the time in it that you can afford.  That is like producing a half-baked potato.  Do that consistently and chances are you will end up working for editors so far down the food chain they have to like it or lump it.

The advice to quit when the bell rings may be true for the polished writer, but the only way I have found to become a polished writer is to keep on rewriting anything you produce until you are a polished writer.  Even after you are selling much of what you write, my experience says to come back to rewrite what you have already sold until you are proud of it. 

In order to become a great writer
strive for greatness in all that you write.
Writers get better with age 
only if they push themselves to get better as they age. 

You can write quicker, faster, and better by drilling yourself to get better at spotting what needs rewriting, before you put it down on paper.  Soon the words you write in the first draft will be truer to your higher self than the words you produced only after the many rewrites you did in the beginning of your career.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -- Alice Duer Miller

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. -- Dick Cavett

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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." Robert A. Heinlein.

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The confused mind always says NO.  Dan Lok

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