5 Strategies For Dealing With Negative Feedback As A Writer | #AmReading

5. Remember: You Can’t Please Everyone
The final piece of advice comes from Stephen King: “If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”

According to an article on Business Insider, the revelation that every decent writer has been accused of being a waste of talent gave King the confidence to say, to those trying to make him feel lousy about his writing, “If you disapprove, I can only shrug my shoulders. It’s what I have.”

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