{"id":7684,"date":"2019-04-12T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T05:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7684"},"modified":"2019-04-04T22:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:01:55","slug":"staying-positive-when-faced-with-negative-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7684","title":{"rendered":"Staying Positive When Faced with Negative #MFRWAuthor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MFRA 52-Week Blog Challenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bad reviews are a fact of life, not only in writing, but in just about every other job as well. Online, everyone from doctors to retail workers are rated and reviewed. Many businesses use surveys\/customer feedback as a basis for pay raises and incentives.<\/p>\n

No one likes to hear that they are doing a “bad” job, but no matter what or who is being reviewed, it’s only an opinion and those are subjective. One person’s amazing is another person’s blah. A great book to one is a horrible one to another.<\/p>\n

No matter what your profession, don’t let bad reviews get you down. If the review has valid points, then use them to improve yourself. If you don’t agree with the criticism, forget about it and move on.<\/p>\n

Sometimes reviews can be biased. For example, I’ve seen a one star review given from one author to another. That same author who left one star left a five star review of her own book. Interesting to say the least.<\/p>\n

Regarding legitimate reviews (unlike the one above), some people will love your work, some people will hate it, and others might not have strong feelings about it either way. That’s life. You can’t change the fact that bad reviews happen, but only you can decide to persevere and stay positive about your writing.<\/p>\n

Find out what other authors on the MFRW 52-Week Blog Hop think here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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