criticism

  • Dealing With Bad Reviews

    Byaudenjohnson

    There’s a ton of advice out there on how to deal with bad reviews. They like to say “dwell on the good reviews.” What if you don’t have any glowing reviews to off-set the negative/indifferent ones? I’ve been having this problem. It’s not something I talk about much because I know how hard it is…

  • Book Sensitivity

    Byaudenjohnson

    We open a vein and pour our blood into our stories. Not something we can help. If we don’t put everything in it, the story won’t possess readers. This is all, slightly, romantic and all, but there’s a down-side. We can become defensive to criticism. My book has gone through beta readers, my publisher, an…