Much ado has been made and continues to be made about how artists should or should not respond to reviews of their work. The first artist who responded publicly to a poor review of his work was A. Non, who wrote Beowulf. It is reported that, when criticisms from a particular sect of useless cavedwellers who could barely rub two sticks together to make fire objected to the overuse of the phrase "whale's road", not to mention all that damned alliteration, that Non got all his club waving buddies to go to their cave and trash it. However, as with all reports heard twenty-thousandsth-hand, it's best to take such stories with a grain of salt. Likely the club wavers just said mean stuff from several yards outside the cave.
Anyway, I'm writing today because Meankitty wants to make some helpful suggestions for authors confused by their inner demons, by their friends, by their instincts, by their end stinks, and by conflicting advice as to how to respond to negative reviews. Here is her first suggestion, presented without comment:
Sincerely,
Jody W. & Meankitty
www.jodywallace.com *
www.meankitty.com
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