How I Handle Bad Reviews

People write for all sorts of reasons. I write because there are these stories in my head, demanding to get out, to be shared with the world.
 
I write to be read.
 
I often say my stories are my children. I labored and suffered to bring them into being. They are my darkest dreams, my secret fantasies, my vulnerabilities, laid out for everyone to see. In other words…
 
I’m sensitive about my writing.
 
Given that, I should take the advice that I’ve often found myself giving to others in the past: DO...