Karl Whitney: Don’t believe everything that you hear about reading (and writing)

When asking yourself when is the right time to give up on a piece, remember that nothing put aside is truly done

Writer Karl Whitney says that you can be your own best critic and first — or only — reader, so finish short things and build from there.

You hear an awful lot of bad advice about reading — and, for that matter, a lot of bad advice about writing too.

When do you give up on reading a book? Should you give it 50 pages, then put it aside?