I'm feeling the rejection again. Trying to write,
teach, etc., and am getting some not-so-positive feedback for a couple of
projects, (but some is constructive criticism on a new project, which is to be
expected, so I don't mind that!). But when put all together, it can bring you
down a bit, so I loved this quote I found on Twitter from Sean Gardner @2morrowknight:
The best way to avoid criticism: never do anything.
Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend time criticizing
Today one of
my friends told me about the name calling used in some criticism of her work,
which was so outlandish it was hilarious. So thanks for sharing, Witch Dawg!
I was also reminded of an article I
wrote many years ago that an old editor hated. She asked me if I was in a coma
when I wrote it. Said I needed to rewrite it, etc., to be fit for print, yada
yada. The same article was scheduled to run in a sister publication, so I went
to that editor and told her what had happened, and that I was going to rewrite
it and would send her the revised version.
The (second) editor said "It's fine, I'm running it as is."
So opinions and evaluations and
critiques are subjective. And that's good to remember. If I
had given up after the first criticism, I never would have written a book about
writing (Strengthen Your Nonfiction Writing), or continued to work on my two
(unpublished, but not for long) novels.
Write soon, (regardless of what the
critics say)
Mary
