Advice and Criticism
When do we take the advice and (constructive) criticism and when do we say - "This is my story, and this is how it will stay?" It's hard to hear someone tear apart your "baby." In July 2019, one of my editors sent me a review of novel I was working on. It left me in tears, ready to shelve the story and never look back. I licked my wounds for three days. Then I decided I wasn't going to take the easy way out.