I totally agree with the point about negativity coming from reviewers. It takes one thoughtless comment to completely throw a writer off track, which then sucks for all the other people who would like to read more from them.
I don't mind criticism from someone who is polite about it and has the guts to be available for conversation after - someone not long ago called me on my warnings which were lacking, and we had a great conversation about it so I learned quite a lot from it. But you're totally right; it's frustrating when people hide.
And just on a tangent - there are guns everywhere in the UK. Seriously. I took a delivery for my neighbour a while back, and when he collected it he told me it was actually a shotgun. Whoops.
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I don't mind criticism from someone who is polite about it and has the guts to be available for conversation after - someone not long ago called me on my warnings which were lacking, and we had a great conversation about it so I learned quite a lot from it. But you're totally right; it's frustrating when people hide.
And just on a tangent - there are guns everywhere in the UK. Seriously. I took a delivery for my neighbour a while back, and when he collected it he told me it was actually a shotgun. Whoops.