Lords and Idiots...

"Herroille ja hulluille ei pidä näyttää keskeneräistä työtä."

There is a Finnish saying: "Unfinished work shouldn't be shown to lords and idiots". Don't share your work with anyone. Don't speak anything about it. The critique will kill your enthusiasm, and you need it to finish the work. It is amazing how little is needed to kill the spark, just a few negative words, even when they are not meant that way, can do the job.

“If there was only one tip I could pass on to new fiction writers, it would be this: Don’t go around blabbing about your book! There is a magic, an energy, an intensity that needs to go into your creative work, not into telling people about it.”
- Aaron Elkins

P.S. The Writer Magazine is having an open doors week, and I feel like a kid in a candy store :-D
I have already read a lot of interesting things, and I've been there only for an hour or so :-D
I especially liked the Dean R. Koonz interview... he is one of my author ideals ;-)

"From the age of 15 until I was 35, I read on average 200 novels a year"
- Dean R. Koonz