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Originally Posted by ApK
Special Snowflake syndrome? No one can dare be told they are no good at anything for fear of offending them or damaging their self-esteem?
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Conversely I wonder how many 'great' authors of the past were told that they had no skill for writing and still went on to have many books published later. I grant you that there are certain standards of punctuation, grammar, etc. that lead to making a good sentence and so on, but that isn't all that goes into the creation of a piece of writing any more than sharpening your chisel is the only thing to do with sculpting marble. There is also editoral bias involved when someone picks up an author's book. Whether they are published or not. And every successful writer if asked could tell you that they had written a lot of rejected dreck before they finally wrote something that was accepted by traditional publishers. Of course people don't want to wait x many months to find out if something will be accepted/rejected, nor do they like the publisher keeping the lions share of the profits when they did the hard work of creation. So people go e publishing now days.