To varying degrees, all writers love praise. I mean, who doesn’t want to hear that something we’ve written was really good, or that someone really enjoyed one of our tales?
I’m no different. I can’t say I live and die with every assessment of my work (I’d go completely cuckoo if that were the case), but it’s always nice to get a compliment, especially when they come unexpectedly. Here’s a good one:
Last night after work I changed my clothes and hit the couch, tired from a long day. LTo varying degrees, all writers love praise. I mean, who doesn’t want to hear that something we’ve written was really good, or that someone really enjoyed one of our tales?
I’m no different. I can’t say I live and die with every assessment of my work (I’d go completely cuckoo if that were the case), but it’s always nice to get a compliment, especially when they come unexpectedly. Here’s a good one:
Last night after work I changed my clothes and hit the couch, tired from a long day. Liz and I were catching up, and just as I settled into my corner spot, Liz explained the following:
Since she works at home three days a week, and goes into the office the other two, she prints out a lot of forms on the home printer. And since we go through a lot of paper–mainly because of me, as a result of my books–we have a lot of scrap paper in the house. I mean, [i]a lot[/i]. To save a few trees, we often print out working drafts of documents on the back of the scrap paper, as she did in this case.
Turns out Liz passed along those work documents to a colleague. A few days later, her colleague reported back that as she was reviewing the documents Liz had printed out, she realized there was something typed out on the back of the pages. She flipped them over, only to find a section of [i]Finders Keepers[/i]. She got a quick chuckle, and figured, [i]hey, it’s here, I’ll check this out[/i]. And she did.
She then reported back to Liz that she not only read three pages of [i]Finders Keepers[/i], but that she laughed out loud doing so, and now wants to read the whole book!
Now that’s what I call a compliment!
