*hugs* I know it's hard. I am never sure if a bad review is worse than no reviews at all. Sometimes I can justify it as 'at least someone read it' but...no.
It's really hard. There are some people who get the attention and the accolades no matter what they write and some of them even deserve them. Then there seems to be the other 95% of good writers who get passed over...I'm not big on the BNF conspiracy, but I think there are people who are known and they get read, and other people, not so much. There also seems to have been an influx of bad writers lately so you'd think those of us who are better would get more recognition. Somehow they all seem to like their own sub-par stuff.
On top of that, I just think civility and discourse are dead. I've seen so much negativity and nastiness in so many places lately that it's dead depressing, even from people I care about. (And of course, if anyone treated them the way they treat other people, you'd never ever hear the end of it) I was taught that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. Or at least be constructive. I wish that was the standard rather than the exception.
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Date: 2008-04-10 01:00 am (UTC)It's really hard. There are some people who get the attention and the accolades no matter what they write and some of them even deserve them. Then there seems to be the other 95% of good writers who get passed over...I'm not big on the BNF conspiracy, but I think there are people who are known and they get read, and other people, not so much. There also seems to have been an influx of bad writers lately so you'd think those of us who are better would get more recognition. Somehow they all seem to like their own sub-par stuff.
On top of that, I just think civility and discourse are dead. I've seen so much negativity and nastiness in so many places lately that it's dead depressing, even from people I care about. (And of course, if anyone treated them the way they treat other people, you'd never ever hear the end of it) I was taught that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. Or at least be constructive. I wish that was the standard rather than the exception.