Russell says - A friend of mine emailed me today, worried. The email asked
whether I’d seen the latest review on one of my books. I said, no, I largely
don’t read ‘em anymore. She didn’t believe me, and was aghast at the complaints
over the writing in the book. Outraged, more like it.
Here’s my take: criticism is a difficult topic to approach
dispassionately, as a content creator of any kind, but if you’re to succeed you
need to have a system for evaluating it, so you can learn from the meritorious
critiques and flush the garbage.
I used to design and build luxury homes. Big ones. Six, seven
thousand feet, on the beach.
When you design homes, it’s much like writing a book, in that your
target audience (the client) will express preferences in the style of
architecture they favor. Some like contemporary, others Mediterranean .
Some demand as many columns and arches and curves as possible, others want only
straight, clean lines. One person’s fugly might be another’s treasure. Rather
like babies, that. And nobody’s really wrong, assuming the design’s competently
executed.
Douglas
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