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Stop Asking If Your Writing Is Bad

Stop Asking If Your Writing Is Bad

Take heart, tender soul.

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Rose Ernst
Jul 17, 2019
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Take heart, tender soul.

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“I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.” 
― Leonard Bernstein

“Are you sure my writing isn’t bad, Rose?”

An editing client asked me this recently.

I’ve often thought the same about my prose.

But responded that “bad” writing doesn’t exist (see parallels to Devon Price’s “…

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