on Jane Friedman site:
The most significant choice of your writing career happens long before your story makes its way into the world. This choice impacts every single aspect of your career, and it is a choice you make over and over and over again. This choice could leave you a husk of a writer, ravaged by the publishing industry, bemoaning the success of everyone else around you; or it could propel you to the next stage of your career and embolden you to try things you’d never thought possible. The funny part is this choice has nothing to do with the act of writing, but everything to do with words.
The most important choice you will make in your writing career is how you choose to talk to yourself about said career.
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
Thank you so much. Timely for me, for I just received the first professional critique of my writing last Monday. Not what I wanted to hear, but what I needed to hear. I’m having to quiet that little voice in my head more than ever.
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