Gordon MacKinney
Stephen King was right in his book On Writing that you cannot trust your friends and family to critique your work. So I went to www.sixfold.org and submitted a short story, and then another. You're evaluated by people who don't know you, sometimes brutally, sometimes constructively, sometimes positively. When it finally happened to me, I received a shot of adrenaline that pushed me to writing my first novel.
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