Why do we baby authors so - as a society - but directors/producers and actors, as well as comic book artists and writers, get friggin' trashed almost every day? I was reading the comment below about ego-Googling. The only time I'd care if someone said my work was shit or not would be IF I THOUGHT SO TOO. And I would not have published it if I'd thought so. I have teeny scraps of writing that I'd be willing to publish (people have been telling me I'm publishable for years) but not much I look at and go 'God, that's beautiful, I want that out there with my name on it!'.
If someone's out there ego-Googling and doesn't like what they find, they can write better or stop reading or stop caring. Because pinning your ego on the passing whims of strangers is ridiculous and, to be completely rude about it, being upset when someone doesn't like your book is like a whore being upset when a car passes her by -- it's not you they don't like, it's the product, and it's not personal. I'm sure I'm going to be hurt in the future when people say my work is shit. But that's my problem, and I'll go cry on my therapist or something.
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Date: 2006-09-25 08:43 pm (UTC)If someone's out there ego-Googling and doesn't like what they find, they can write better or stop reading or stop caring. Because pinning your ego on the passing whims of strangers is ridiculous and, to be completely rude about it, being upset when someone doesn't like your book is like a whore being upset when a car passes her by -- it's not you they don't like, it's the product, and it's not personal. I'm sure I'm going to be hurt in the future when people say my work is shit. But that's my problem, and I'll go cry on my therapist or something.