Writers and bloggers feel good when you buy their book or click on their website.
They like it even more when you open up the book and read the first chapter or peruse a couple of posts.
They start to feel as though they have achieved something when you finish the book or read everything on their blog.
They get excited when you pass the book on to someone else, buy it as a gift, refer a friend to their work, subscribe to their blog or send their link around to your contacts.
But if you really want to give a compliment to a writer, try doing something different as a result of what you’ve read.
Change a habit, adopt a new mindset, respond to life’s challenges with greater wisdom.
That’s a compliment that will help them to realise that it’s been worth the effort and takes our reading from being a nice hobby to an opportunity to continue to grow and develop.
While on the subject, if you’re a Christian who believes that the Bible is God’s Word, if you want to give God a compliment I suspect that the same rule applies.
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April 13, 2011 at 10:35 am
Debbie
You have me smiling and wanting to give more compliments, to God and everyone else. 🙂
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April 14, 2011 at 6:00 am
seeonesoul
Yip, I hear you 🙂 … Not that I’m predominantly a writer, though I do write, but I’m predominantly a photographer, and in recent talks I’ve held I’ve had the incredibly joyous experience of having impacted the hobby photographers I was talking to in such a way that they chose to go out and view the world a little differently and try to capture it’s splendour in a slightly different and fresh sort of way. I had them come back from subsequent photo sessions, keen and eagre to show me their new images and explain to me exactly how these fresh images were different and more exciting from images taken before they felt inspired by my talk …
Yes indeed … feedback like that is always delightful!! :))
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