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To all here who are "outraged" by Hale's behavior - go write a f*ing book for the next 3 years of your life. Then come read your reviews. Note: I am NOT a novelist. But I am a writer, and part of the job is to explore the dark sh*t that everyone else glosses over. It literally is the job. Whether you like what she did or not, she's hit on something human, and all the debate just demonstrates the validity of her piece.
☆Dani☆ I've said it before, but William Shakespeare and James Joyce, they're considered two of the best writers EVER. They spent years and years writing, and…moreI've said it before, but William Shakespeare and James Joyce, they're considered two of the best writers EVER. They spent years and years writing, and it's usually agreed that what they wrote was genius. And you know what? They still got some really shitty reviews during their lives. They've some shitty reviews on Goodreads too, with lots of one stars all over the place.

So if it's okay for Shakespeare and Joyce to get bad reviews, then what makes Kathleen Hale and the like above all that? She's not a better writer than they are, or does she think she is?

If she doesn't want her book to get bad reviews, then she shouldn't have published it. She's completely entitled to keep her writing hidden away from the world, where bad reviews can't touch it. That's a valid decision. But what she can't do is send it out into the world, and demand only positives. That's not how it works.

And by the way, I've been writing a book for the last SIX years of my life, though I'm not published and probably never will be. I've already gotten some negative feedback, and you know what, I deal with it. I don't throw a tantrum and start committing crimes because of it. That's just stupidity.(less)
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