Giving Tuesday: To Authors and Writers and other Recipients of Vicious Reviews
…or How I learned to stop worrying about the noise around me and just write…. If you are on Facebook or Twitter or a member of any number of groups that involve readers and writers, you’ve seen it or heard it. “I got a bad review.” “I got a bad review…can you vote it down for me?” “I got a bad review, can I get it removed?” “Rant rant rant against bad reviews……” “These people who write bad reviews don’t understand how much it takes to create….to write….to imagine…to dream…” I’ll tell ya, honey, to this last one – no, they don’t, nor do they care. Now, I’ve written before how people who write reviews should be kind and constructive and all that jazz. Real nice, right? All kum ba ya and nice-nice, yakity yak. Today, I’m totally putting my thing down, flipping it and reversing it. Go read some… Continued