Excellent words of advice

Cruising other blogs to find good stuff:

Here's a post on handling criticism: You need to learn to handle feedback before you're pubbed, and you definitely need to know how to handle it when you're pubbed. (All authors get bad reviews. Doesn't matter how brilliant the author or the book, or how much the angels sing, a negative review will come.)

http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2007/08/20/how-to-handle-criticism-and-get-something-good-out-of-it/

Colleen Thompson blogs about tightening words, plots, scenes.

http://boxingoctopus.blogspot.com/2009/12/cutting-to-chase.html