Things that will be a problem if a publishing person thinks them (in most cases)

Thursday 2/12/26

Things that will usually cause problems for someone if a publishing person thinks any of them about that person:

You're not one of us.

You're not like me.

You're smarter than I am.

You're legitimate.

You're so productive.

Your work has so much range.

You know more than I do.

You're not mediocre.

You're self-assured.

You're self-made.

You make me look bad by comparison.

You make it harder for me to believe what I want to believe about myself.

You have true purpose.

You see me for what I am.

You don't venerate me.

You're not lying.

I could never do what you do.

I could never write like you.

And then again, because everything comes back to this:

You're not one of us.

You're not like me.

Any of these thoughts--to say nothing of all, to say nothing of all to the maximum degree--will usually mean: You won't advance pass this gate I guard/go any further at all if I can help it.

Which in turn means you need to have at things. You can't wait, because then you'll wait until you die. In silence. Like you weren't there, because people were made to think the above. That's not how you can let it be.