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Writers, new writers, one day writers:
There will be people you love who'll dislike your books. Strangers, too. It's part of the deal.
These people aren't your enemies. They aren't bad people. They aren't anything other than someone who didn't click with one thing you made.
There will be people you love who'll dislike your books. Strangers, too. It's part of the deal.
These people aren't your enemies. They aren't bad people. They aren't anything other than someone who didn't click with one thing you made.
And I don't do that to diminish them at all--a reviewer, familiar to you or not, is an essential part of your career--who can bolster you beyond heights you imagined.
But that can't be the expectation from you.
You gotta let them be, to do their thing.
But that can't be the expectation from you.
You gotta let them be, to do their thing.
You gotta give them the space and freedom to decide if your art isn't for them.
And it's possible that One Thing they read means they won't wanna read more from you. And that's okay, too. Because someone else... will stumble across you and COMMIT to reading from/by you.
And it's possible that One Thing they read means they won't wanna read more from you. And that's okay, too. Because someone else... will stumble across you and COMMIT to reading from/by you.
I have people on this here site who absolutely despised some of my work and said so in reviews. They don't know I know that, probably, and it'll never come up.
I made a thing that wasn't For Them.
I deal with it and move on.
Which might be why I'm at twelve books still going.
I made a thing that wasn't For Them.
I deal with it and move on.
Which might be why I'm at twelve books still going.
You personalize this stuff forever? You'll burn out. I'd never brook an abuser, but conflating "didn't like my book and said so" with abuse is a rookie mistake you need to let go of.
Reviewers--even friend reviewers--owe you nothing and operate outside of you.
Reviewers--even friend reviewers--owe you nothing and operate outside of you.
