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    • Productivity Is Power: 5 Liberating Practices for College Students
    • Productivity is Power 2: For Creative, Business, and Other Professionals
    • The Seven Secrets of the Prolific
    • The Lifelong Activist
    • Other Books
  • How To
    • Stop Procrastinating
    • Recognize and Overcome Perfectionism
    • Recognize Situational Perfectionism
    • Make It Through the Middles of Your Projects
    • Stop Hoarding Your Work
    • Deal With Email Overload
    • Cope With Clueless Questions, Crass Comments, and Crazy Conjectures
    • Support Someone Looking for Work
    • Help Your Kid Overcome a Video Game Habit
    • Live Your Summer Life All Year Long
    • Recognize, and Cope With, Success-Related Losses
    • Handle Mistakes and Failures
  • Downloads
    • Time Management Forms
    • The Journey is the Reward: 15 Years of Blogging on Productivity, Love, and Life
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John Scalzi on Why You Should Never Let Your Reviewers Get You Down

By Hillary | January 27, 2014 | 0

The Inimitable One offers a list of one-star reviews of books that later went on to win science fiction’s celebrated Hugo award. My favorite is this review of Scalzi’s own novel Red Shirts, which actually uses the word “onanistic”: This is an onanistic shallow and very disappointing book. Little or no character development. What should…

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