One of the most difficult parts of working in the arts is the fact that it is virtually impossible not to take it personally when your work gets rejected. Because the work we do is such a direct reflection of who we are. Even starting in grad school, I saw many very good writers suffer so severely from criticism that they either dropped out of the progr…
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