Monday, January 14, 2008

Do not listen or believe self proclaimed writers on internet

It is very important not to listen or believe everything that is told to you by self-proclaimed writers on the Internet or in person. Back when I first started getting into writing, I got on some writing forums and asked for some tips and advise from the people that frequented the forum. Long story short they told me things that were not true, not because they were trying to deceive me, but because they were either ignorant about the matter, or because of their own failure in that specific matter. Some of them assumed that if they couldn't do it, it couldn't be done. Also some of them were just flat out miss-informed and as naive as I was back then I let it discourage me without doing any research of my own. I can't tell you how many of these self proclaimed writer's turned out to be wrong once I woke up and did some research of my own.
So when your taking advice from people on a website, don’t assume that everybody on there knows what they’re talking about. Make sure you get a lot of second opinions and research it before you make up your mind if it its true or not. I know most of you do just that, but I know there are some out there like me who have made the same mistakes.
-Mike

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