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Authors, Here’s How to Deal with Negative Feedback

December 17, 2018

If you’re an author, whether of fiction or nonfiction, one of the things you must learn is how to deal with negative feedback.

As soon as a novel (or book in general) reaches a public audience, it becomes a potential subject of critique. Most authors welcome that – or at least they claim they do! And yet, what they really are after is not feedback but positive feedback.

To an extent this is human nature. Most people would prefer to hear good words and praises about their work, not criticism and reasons why someone thought it was bad. But you can’t please everyone – neither should you try – and hence it’s inevitable that negative feedback is something that you, as a writer, will have to deal with sooner or later.

In today’s article I show you how to deal with negative feedback. Sneak preview: it’s not what you think it is!

how to deal with negative feedback
One of the keys (no visual pun intended!) of dealing with negative feedback is to realize how easy it is for someone to offer negative feedback without any repercussions
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