A couple days ago, my wife and I were arguing about something or other—maybe it’s fairer to say we were arguing about everything or other—when she moved on to an editorial of my writing life.
It neither started nor ended on a happy note.
“You’re a failure,” she said. “As a writer you’re a complete failure. You should give it up.”
ahem…
Not exactly the unflinching, hard-nosed criticism* I was talking about in this post.
Perhaps I can get her to go back and re-read my thoughts—a quick refresher course, let’s call it—just to be sure she really gets the gist.
Or perhaps not.
* not really a criticism of the writing, at all. She hasn't read any of it since I came back to writing after a long hiatus.
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