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.”

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

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Nathalie M.L. Römer is an author based in Frövi, Sweden. She lives here with her partner, Anders. Before this, she had lived for over two decades in Britain. She was born and initially raised in the Netherlands, and later also lived in Curaçao. She considers herself a multi-genre author, publishing them under her imprint Emerentsia Publications, which she co-owns with her partner. She writes primarily science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and romance, and she's working on books in other genres that interest her. I’m @nathaliemlromer on every social media resource.

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