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My parents are here visiting and my dad told me I was a great writer yesterday. Everyone was shocked into silence, the conversation just stopped. I should have gotten it on tape! It was great!
If you could receive wonderful, honest praise from any one person, living or dead, who would it be?
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Monday, January 28, 2013
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Enough praise to keep me going for a while came yesterday in the form of a rejection. The editor loves my novel but her higher-ups have a different plan for their publications. She says, "maybe one day..." That is so much more heartening than my fears that everyone would decide it's terrible. I understand these corporate decisions. To know a stranger loves my book is praise enough.
I would LOVE to hear my parents tell me that they are really proud of me and don't think I am such a screw up after all. I should flush that idea down the toilet though. Finding praise from others only brings me disappointment.
Praise from my daughter for hopefully being a good mother to her, a friend and secret keeper.
Praise from my parents, long dead. "Your family is wonderful. Your girls and their families are just what we hoped for you."
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