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Monday, September 25, 2017

Writer's and the Dreaded Book Review

      Whether you are new or a seasoned book writer, at one time or another you will have to deal with what I call the dreaded book review. If writing wasn't hard enough, once you publish your book the realization of what you have written will come to pass when you experience people judging you and your book. You can't escape this since the Internet is filled with ratings on products of all kinds, and the book is one of the greatest of the reviews on the world wide web.

     The world of readers will judge your work in ways that you as a writer could never imagine. Some of it will be good and some of it will not be so good.  When people are praising you as a writer you will feel pretty great.  But, when someone says something bad, (I don't care if it is just one person) you will feel like you are washed up as a writer and should just throw in the towel and give up.  

     As a writer who has had some not so good things said about my writing, I can truly tell you that it digs deep at ones inner core and writing passion.  I can truly tell you that I have come close many times in giving up writing.  Of course, I then realize that writing is my passion and I would be lost without it.  So no matter what anyone says, whether it hurts or not I continue to persevere.  The one thing about being on the Internet is I have discovered that I am not the only writer who has ever experienced this.

     The following video helped me find some humor in regards to the dreaded book review.



     So what if you personally get a bad book review and it makes you feel like crap.  What should you do?  Here is another video offering you some solutions to this problem.




      Although the video above is good, I don't exactly agree with the Number 4 way of dealing with bad book reviews.  I personally feel when you see a one star or two-star review that these are usually readers who are NOT your readers of what you have written.  The star reviews that I think you should pay a great deal of attention to are the 3-star reviewers.  Why, because they are the readers who are wavering on whether or not they will become a loyal reader of yours.  They are usually readers who will always have something good to say along with something that they didn't like.  I have often times find that they will offer suggestions to you that you should probably pay attention to.

     Just remember if you ever get a bad book review take a deep breath and tell yourself that you are in good company with other writers.  Hey, as you saw in the video above even Stephen King gets 1-star reviews, as well as so many other well-known authors. 

So just Remember YOU ARE NOT ALONE!

     In my next blog entry, I am going to talk about how long your book should be whether you are writing fiction or nonfiction.

     So stay tuned.




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