Alm Hlgh's Blog - Posts Tagged "hated"
Try As You Might
What is it? Someone please explain it to me; preferably slowly. Why is it try as you might, no matter how delicate and considerate you try to be; why oh why are people so easily to get offended? Have you ever been speaking and happen to maybe use the word "well" or "So" only to be chastised by an unknown public "why must you use that word so much?"
Sometimes you may pronounce a word a certain way that is not traditionally pronounced in another person's everyday language and before you know it someone has made a snide little remark or comment about your usage. Suddenly you find yourself in the middle of chaos and you're wondering "what the hack happened?"
I've recently learned that no matter how much I try and how careful I am, someone, somewhere at some unknown time will be "offended" by something I said or didn't say or the way I wrote this and not that. Recently I was chastised because apparently my blurbs on my books were too long. I found it utterly mind-blowing because not recently enough it had been brought to my attention that the blurbs were too short and not enough information such as word count was given.
I don't know how many other authors have experienced similar situations like this; but I just thought I would write this blog to let you know you're not alone. Someone long ago wrote: "you're damned if you do and damned if you don't... and you can please everybody..."
The best that I can offer is to do what's in your heart let God be your guide and hope that the masses will feel your heart and know your passion. Whatever you do, don't let it discourage you, just laugh it off and keep on writing the very best that you can.
Sometimes you may pronounce a word a certain way that is not traditionally pronounced in another person's everyday language and before you know it someone has made a snide little remark or comment about your usage. Suddenly you find yourself in the middle of chaos and you're wondering "what the hack happened?"
I've recently learned that no matter how much I try and how careful I am, someone, somewhere at some unknown time will be "offended" by something I said or didn't say or the way I wrote this and not that. Recently I was chastised because apparently my blurbs on my books were too long. I found it utterly mind-blowing because not recently enough it had been brought to my attention that the blurbs were too short and not enough information such as word count was given.
I don't know how many other authors have experienced similar situations like this; but I just thought I would write this blog to let you know you're not alone. Someone long ago wrote: "you're damned if you do and damned if you don't... and you can please everybody..."
The best that I can offer is to do what's in your heart let God be your guide and hope that the masses will feel your heart and know your passion. Whatever you do, don't let it discourage you, just laugh it off and keep on writing the very best that you can.
