Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing

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Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Publishing by Dean Wesley Smith

www.goodreads.com/book/show/20767064-killing-the-top-ten-sacred-cows-of-publishing

Book bundle:

Bundle on the Industry: A WMG Writer's Guide by Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith

www.goodreads.com/book/show/54426221-bundle-on-the-industry

The book is on his blog:

www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-cows-of-publishing-1/
www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-cows-of-publishing-2/
www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-covers-of-publishing-3-rewriting/
www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-cows-of-publishing-4-you-need-an-agent-to-sell-a-book/
www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-cows-of-publishing-5-book-as-event/
www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-cows-of-publishing-6-selling-to-a-big-publisher-insures-quality/
www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-cows-of-publishing-7-to-sell-you-must-write-what-is-hot/
www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-cows-of-publishing-8-you-cant-make-a-living-with-your-fiction/
www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-cows-of-publishing-9-writing-is-hard/
www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-sacred-cows-of-publishing-killing-a-career/

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www.deanwesleysmith.com/killing-the-top-ten-sacred-covers-of-publishing-3-rewriting/

Your critical voice is also full of the fear that comes out in “I can’t show this to friends.” Or, “What would my mother think?” That is all critical side thinking that makes you take a great story and dumb it down.

In one of his other books he even mentioned that some writers have a fear of success. I have that fear, and I think it is connected to the fear that people I know will see/read it. So, I definitely have the critical voice/side controlling me. And I will need to work on that, for sure. If I don't conquer that, I won't ever publish. (I did use to fear the idea of, "What will my mother think?" But, she died, so I don't have to worry at all about what she'll think anymore. But, the critical voice/side will come up with another excuse to replace it with, so I will have to squash it.)