Just chiming in with some random comments.
I built up a thicker skin
Nail on the head. Right there. Granted, I'm not suggesting we run sessions in IRC on "How to Toughen Up," but when you put your work out in the public, you leave the door wide open for the good and the bad. And it is a very. wide. door. :p I base this on the fact that my brochure just got STOMPED on in presentation last month, but my magazine passed with flying colors today.
On Sue's subject of favorites...I really try my best to recommend stories that aren't talked about all the time. And trust me, I have my favorites. There are a few authors on the Archive that I follow like a religion.
But the favorites topic just gets old when to me when I see the same names cropping up over and over, (although nothing personal, most of those stories are my favs, too!) But when I look for story recs, I want to find something new to try.
JD
