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The Battle In the Circles
Today I received a lovely email from a Google+ follower who had written a lovely poem and in return received a negative comment.
...since you are in my circles, were you offended by my work? How do you deal with it? Signed - M.S from Texas
I kindly told M.S from Texas that it is ok to receive a negative view from time to time and to consider most comments "Constructive Criticism," if it is coming from a good place. How do you know when it isn't coming from a good place? If the viewer blatantly uses words that are condescending, tasteless and misspells a few of them... they weren't worth the negative comment to begin with. I say delete them from your circles. If all you've gotten is one nay out of a bunch of yes's I'd say, that is a good thing.
To answer her second question, I was not offended by anyone's work. We are all different in our thought process and will not have the same idea's in our poetry or any other work, for that matter. I prefer unique reads myself.
I once had a reader scold me for my poem "Fear." She said that I was offering a quick fix to the worlds problems and that I should just bottle it up and sell it.
Everybody runs into a stumbling block at some point or another in their life and mine just happened to metaphorically be a brick wall.
Nonetheless, I've gotten over that brick wall and the rude post about my poem. I suggest M.S from Texas that she do the same thing. Own your work, stay true to yourself and continue to be prosperous in 2015.
Lisa Sharpe
A Goodreads Writer
...since you are in my circles, were you offended by my work? How do you deal with it? Signed - M.S from Texas
I kindly told M.S from Texas that it is ok to receive a negative view from time to time and to consider most comments "Constructive Criticism," if it is coming from a good place. How do you know when it isn't coming from a good place? If the viewer blatantly uses words that are condescending, tasteless and misspells a few of them... they weren't worth the negative comment to begin with. I say delete them from your circles. If all you've gotten is one nay out of a bunch of yes's I'd say, that is a good thing.
To answer her second question, I was not offended by anyone's work. We are all different in our thought process and will not have the same idea's in our poetry or any other work, for that matter. I prefer unique reads myself.
I once had a reader scold me for my poem "Fear." She said that I was offering a quick fix to the worlds problems and that I should just bottle it up and sell it.
Everybody runs into a stumbling block at some point or another in their life and mine just happened to metaphorically be a brick wall.
Nonetheless, I've gotten over that brick wall and the rude post about my poem. I suggest M.S from Texas that she do the same thing. Own your work, stay true to yourself and continue to be prosperous in 2015.
Lisa Sharpe
A Goodreads Writer
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