Supposedly such a simple thing.. You say what you think in a polite way – honesty and bluntness aren’t actually the same thing - and hopefully the recipient is appreciative of it. Providing you haven’t decided to be honest at an entirely inappropriate time (i.e the moment in the wedding ‘does anybody object’ – if you haven’t said it by now too bl@$dy late!). There certainly is a time and place. That of course brings us around to the people who love drama and feed off negative energy. You know the sort, the ‘friend’ who announces in front of a group of others that you’ve got something stuck … [Read more...]
Do you find it difficult to revise your work?
I used to find it really hard but it’s slowly getting easier. At first I would be tearing my hair out in despair thinking ‘OMG!?! What am I doing? I suck!’ but then I would come across a really good passage. So good I could seriously believe that little elves snuck in and did it for me. Now I can revise it without too much drama. When I start to have a ‘tense’ moment I put it away for five and do something else. When I come back to it, it never seems that bad and I can see how to re-write it. Re-writing is such an important thing. Every newbie has to realize and accept that nothing is perfect … [Read more...]