Frustration and defensiveness hinder transition to general audience writing.

Evidence

The colleagues who have failed to make the transition to writing for general audiences struggled for different and diverse reasons, but I have seen a consistent predictive pattern: those colleagues who ultimately did not succeed were those who became frustrated and defensive easily. — Tilar J Mazzeo, How to Write a Bestseller, 31

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Tilar J Mazzeo, How to Write a Bestseller, 31
• XREF: connects to: A growth mindset enhances transition to writing for general audiences. — Tilar J Mazzeo, How to Write a Bestseller, 29; Mediated images of the world produce a felt smallness that spurs and frustrates writing. — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1204; Broadcast professionalism functions as a defensive retreat from contested content — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 872