It is hard to put out into the world for all to see and throw brickbats at the cherished child of one's creative energies. I am only teasing you. I do understand how empty you will feel to have it, as it were, out of the nest. We pour so much of ourselves into these things - if we are doing them right. I have an almost audible tearing when something I have laboured over is finally shoved out the door. I guess we must simply live with the realization that we are shaving bits of ourselves away when we write seriously. I think it is worth it and so, I suspect, do you. :-)
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