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For every handful of people who were enthusiastic about my writing ambitions there was always someone ready to deter or attempt to belittle me. ‘Still working on your little book?’ and ‘Do you really think you’re going to get this published?’ are two unhelpful phrases I recall. Strangely enough, the same people were only too quick to congratulate me with ‘I knew you’d get there in the end ’ once I got published …

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Michelle Harrison: Five things I wish I had known before I was published « Hay Fever Blog

Hmm. Yes. 

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