Ouch. So you’ve sent your creative baby out into the world and it received a bad review. It hurts. We understand, but before you become too invested and woebegone about it, here are five ways to combat feelings of inadequacy, pain and anger.
Remember, it’s just one person’s assessment and their perspective is, of course, subjective, like all criticism. Obviously your work, for whatever reason, did not chime with their expectations. It doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily a badly written piece, unsuccessful work of art or failed theatrical production, but that it did not work for this particular reviewer, who came to it with their own set of prejudices, preferences and biases.
