If you've made it past your teens, you've learned that denial doesn't work in relationships. Pretending to be someone you're not will only catch up with you in a complicated, unpleasant way at some point. The same holds true for your relationship with your writing self. Telling yourself you have a different writing personality than you actually do will only slow you down and make you less efficient and more frustrated when you sit down at the desk. In this, the fifth and final installment of the writing temperament discussion, we look at the writer who is overly dependent on outside feedback.
