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Bring it on

Thank you to everyone who gave me words of support. It may seem a bit silly to get depressed over a bad review but I'm sure any author can see they feel like jacking it all in when someone says their work is rubbish for the first time. I've decided that I will take every review, good or bad, and learn from it. Nobody will make me consider giving up writing, something I love, ever again.
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Published on April 18, 2012 04:40
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message 1: by Kaje (new)
Apr 18, 2012 07:48AM

Kaje Harper You were not being "silly"! I'm glad to hear you feel better - if you are writing for the love of it, you should never stop, whether you publish or not, whether you get rave reviews or not. But it is very human to get depressed over a bad review, not silly. Especially the first time.

That book is a piece of you. If someone didn't like it, especially if they picked on something you had a nagging concern about (as some of my bad reviews do) it hurts. And feeling like throwing it all in is not just for the first bad review, but will recur every now and then when it seems like it's not worth putting yourself out there naked to be stared at (which is what releasing a new book can feel like.)

But this is what counts. "Nobody will make me consider giving up writing, something I love, ever again. " - that makes me happy.


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