Writing is not for sissies. |
I could sit in a corner and scribble away. No one would
know, no one would read what I wrote, and I would never be criticized or
critiqued. But that isn't what I do. I make a little money writing Internet
content. Editors look at what I have written and point out my errors.
The other day I received a demotion from one of the sites
where I write. Four recently written articles were reviewed, and there were a
lot of spelling errors. Why hadn't I spell checked? I know better. I was
embarrassed and upset. I thought I
had been proofing my articles. Obviously, I wasn't proofing all of them.
The guidelines at each site are different. I submitted an
article to another site. The editor commented on how he loved the article. .
.but.
After I had finished beating up on myself, I thought,
"Writing is not for sissies." I decided I had fallen off and it was
time to get back up on the horse. I'm going to write twenty articles, I'm going
to be very careful to proof each and every one of them, and then I'm going to
apply for reinstatement of my higher level.
I received a message from a mutual forum participant,
"A writer's best friend is a good editor." Although this is very
true, it sometimes means swallowing a bitter pill, and realizing you are not as
good as you thought you were.
If you find any spelling or grammatical errors, please let
me know.
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