How To Ruin Your Writing Career (In One Simple Step)

It’s not worth the fight

Elise L. Blake
Writer’s Daily Digest

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There are many things you can do to help your career as an author.

There are just as many things you can do to hurt your career as an author.

And there is one thing you can do that will stop your career in its tracks and ruin all of the hard work you’ve put into it.

This one simple step?

Fighting with your readers or commenting negatively about reviews.

Now here’s why.

The Importance Of Readers

Without readers, there would be no authors.

If not for the support, feedback, and time and money spent by readers authors would cease to exist.

When a reader spends their money to buy your book and their time to read your book — they owe you nothing.

As soon as that book is in their hand the transaction is over.

It’s become a trend lately for authors to make videos reading their reviews or complaining about the feedback they received on their work and as an author — I feel disgusted to share a profession with them.

When readers invest their time and money in us all we can do is sit back and hope they…

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Elise L. Blake
Writer’s Daily Digest

Full-time writing coach and novelist. Elise is a recent college graduate where she earned her BA in Creative Writing.