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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DDK" data-source="post: 601739" data-attributes="member: 6469">Don't beat yerself up about it. Ultimately, people will think what they'll think regardless of the truth or the appearance of truth or the explanations or the perceptions... bah! Forget about what people think and just do it.Doesn't matter what you'll do, you'll have people telling you it was wrong or stupid or lame. Only listen to them if they're your friends and even then, make sure they're really friends 'cause most people who'll say that, won't be.Most likely you do annoy them. But then they probably annoy you with some of the things they do too. One of my favourite sayings is, "Friends are people who know everything about you; and still like you anyway." Regardless, 'tis the lot of the gifted to be obsessed with what they do; how else can they manage the Herculean task of success in this world of nay-sayers, hypocrits and critics?As for feedback... eh, I'm yet to get any constructive criticism from a friend who wasn't also in the writing industry or wasn't a hobbyist writer. Even then, it's the professionals who understand the value of criticism who give you the best feedback. Hobbyists are usually too scared of having their own work degraded in any way to give a negative response to anyone elses work.If you want feedback, request it in the d20 Publisher's forum, is my advice. In fact... find the nastiest, most inhospitable publisher you can, and then give him a sample of your work, lol.I want both. I want money. I want fame. I want the whole package that comes with success. I've done without for too long. I didn't ask to be born on the lower rung but I'll be damned if I'm gonna stop climbing till I reach the top.No shame in wanting to be successful. The only shame that can come through success is how one achieves it.I don't understand this. Given that we used to argue black'n'blue in the channel, it'd be my guess I'd be one of those you'd have excised. Yet I give in so many ways to the hobby that I'm hardly detrimental to it. I give of my time, my energy, my efforts and my creativity. I'd say wisdom and intelligence but then I'd be roasted alive for making such (factual) claims <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Just like a writer to be a romantic. Sheesh. Love is overrated. Make money, become successful, you'll have enough 'love' to last you forever.Personally, I value friendships far more than I value love. Though, saying that, I love my friends.</blockquote>

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