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How criticism can kill dreams we should have protected

I deleted my novel after my writing group criticized it and now two years later I wish I had kept working on it instead of giving up so easily.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The vulnerable heart often mistakes feedback for verdict, abandoning what might have grown with patience.

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