{"id":186,"date":"2003-04-07T22:55:46","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T06:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=186"},"modified":"2005-09-24T08:12:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T16:12:35","slug":"letter-to-my-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Letter To My Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Inner Critic,<\/p>\n

You have got<\/i> to stop hounding me. Seriously. You have got to stop telling me what to post and what not to post, what readers will like and what they won’t. I am not a child or an idiot. I can friggin’ think for myself, thank you, and I have a writing degree; damn it, let me put it to some use. I’m almost certain that I can post something acceptable, even if it isn’t my best work.<\/p>\n

Who says it has to be good anyway? Who says it has to be compelling? As if the quality of writing has anything to do with readership—pshaw! My writing hasn’t changed much over the years, and yet even the dullest blogs<\/a> get more readers than I do. Even if I wrote the next Great American Novel, that fact wouldn’t change; you know that. Besides, the size of our audience never mattered to you before, back when it was nonexistent, so why should it matter now? I thought you said that this log was just for us, for me. Why ruin that with premature criticism? I mean, really!<\/p>\n

So please… just leave me alone, okay? And quit arguing with me; the cat’s beginning to wonder why I’m muttering to myself, waving my fist in the computer’s general direction. Are you trying to paralyze me? Render me unproductive? Make me the laughingstock of the entire online world? What kind of friend are you anyway? Here I am with a ton of ideas and a ton of half-written entries, and there you are, knocking each and every one of them down.<\/p>\n

You arrogant jerk, you’re fired, and I never want to see you around here again. Get lost, and good riddance!<\/p>\n

With everlasting love and friendship,
\nApril<\/p>\n

P.S.—We’re still on for lunch tomorrow, right? My treat. Don’t be late.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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Dear Inner Critic, You have got to stop hounding me. Seriously. You have got to stop telling me what to post and what not to post, what readers will like and what they won’t. I am not a child or an idiot. I can friggin’ think for myself, thank you, and I have a writing degree; damn it, let me put it to some use. I’m almost certain that I can post something acceptable, even if it isn’t my best…<\/p>\n

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