Negative Criticism

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Judgments Are Made In Life

Negative criticism, judgment,
is a part of life as is living.
People, wrong or right, make
judgments. Some people live to
hand-out negative criticism.

Why? They care little for you
or your work. The small-minded
look at you, your writing,
under a microscope to poke
around for errors. An I without
the dot will do. They live to
belittle and make themselves
appear right, intelligent.

Some people through their jobs
have an obligation to criticize,
positive and/or negative. Still,
criticism should be handled
humanely.

I critique manuscripts, and know
from experience. I look at a
writer's work with an objective
eye but with the understanding
that a feeling/caring person
wrote it.

Errors can be pointed-out without
crushing a writer's ambition. Tips
are given to improve, make better.

A few forget what it's like on the
writing side, can't grasp it or
don't care.

However, don't let negative criticism
stop you. Negative criticism is
peppered throughout life.

Handle it by accepting that you're
not perfect. Go through your writing
and make it better. Work on areas
of weakness. Your work have tons
of spelling errors? Spell-check
five times, six to be sure. Verbs
a problem? Take time to learn about
strong verbs.

You can't stop people from throwing
negative criticism your way, but you
can strengthen areas that need work.
A suggestion is to select two hours,
day or night, for improving self or
writing.

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