it's hard to express how impt lowering your standards is to being a (sort of) successful writer.https://twitter.com/Pablo360Able/status/870807406103724032 …
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The more willing you are to have editors just gut your prose, the better off you are.
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ppl are like, "be true to yourself," but you're way better off just having no investment in your work, I think.
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or maybe that's overstating...but willingness to compromise is definitely a boon.
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I think it's somewhat different when you're actually a name/brand/success.
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but this is why so much writing advice is bad! People look for writing advice to veyr successful writers.
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but vast majority of writers are *not* very successful, and it's a business that looks quite different from the middle as opposed to the top
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like; "keep trying, be true to yourself, work hard." or "if you're meant to be a writer, you'll know." successful writers say those things
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becuase if you're successful, they worked! but that is not always how it goes.
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It's like asking a lottery winner to write a guide to number picking
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