How to Deal with Negative Comments

As a freelance writer some times you will have to deal with negative comments. Negative comments may come from your readers an editor or friends and family. You need to learn how to deal with these negative comments or your freelance writing will suffer or fail.

Reader Comments:
Comments on your freelance articles can seem to be harsher than they were meant. Writing online makes it hard to convey emotions and your commenter may have left you a little joke.

Editor Comments:
Negative comments and rejections made by an editor may have been intended to be constructive criticism. Sometimes constructive criticism is difficult to take and so is rejection for that matter. Most editors know what they are talking about, so try not to take it too personally.

Peer Comments:
In some writing circles other unscrupulous freelance writers will attempt to gang up on new writers so they will become discouraged and leave. These old timers don’t want any new freelancers to steal a piece of their pie.

You can ignore their comments or address them and post a reply in your comments. If you have negative comments that can be removed from your work by all means remove them. If you choose to combat those negative comments be positive and be the bigger person. If you fight fire with fire you will just add fuel to their fire and they could stalk you and may eventually ruin your online presence.

If one writing site is terribly bad and you cannot escape the negative comments you will need to go elsewhere. Just don’t let those trolls and naysayers stop you from writing.

How to Deal:
Negative comments can come from anywhere including a parent, your best friend or spouse and they can end a writing career before it has even begun. You can’t stop people from voicing their opinions but you get to decide whether or not to listen to them. So try to let those negative comments slide right off and keep writing.