And don't listen to the negative reviews. Your works ROCK.
It's not so much the negative reviews in and of themselves, because even the positive reviews occasion the "omg, but they'll really be disappointed in this one" (where this one = the current work in progress, whichever it happens to be).
There are negative reviews which can be all-out ignored because they're just wrong - factually wrong.
The ones that are harder are the ones that you sit on the fence about: they read the same book you wrote, and what they got out of it was in no way what you put into it, and maybe ... you're never going to put into it what you hope to, so what's the point?
Although it has never stopped me from writing; it just makes the writing very painful.
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Date: 2008-02-14 04:48 pm (UTC)It's not so much the negative reviews in and of themselves, because even the positive reviews occasion the "omg, but they'll really be disappointed in this one" (where this one = the current work in progress, whichever it happens to be).
There are negative reviews which can be all-out ignored because they're just wrong - factually wrong.
The ones that are harder are the ones that you sit on the fence about: they read the same book you wrote, and what they got out of it was in no way what you put into it, and maybe ... you're never going to put into it what you hope to, so what's the point?
Although it has never stopped me from writing; it just makes the writing very painful.