Got my first really bad feedback today

>>8159012
Did they give specific details about what they didn't like?

Who gives a fuck about reviews for anything?

90% of the people that review shit just want to trash things and are functionally retarded.

>>8159012
good
don't steel yourself
let people's dislike affect you as motivtion, but only to work harder

>>8159015
They thought parts of the plot were confusing (no one else has had difficulty with it) and pointed out that I didn't flesh a character out well enough (the character isn't even a supporting character, possibly not even third-tier), so the reviewer may have just been a retard. But still - I want retards to like it too.

>>8159012
I got a 1 star review on goodreads from some Scandinavian dude who couldn't finish my book.

4/10 is far from toilet-tier m8

especially for first-work reviews.

Publishers receive hundreds of worse-than-fanfiction tier shit every day, receiving any feedback is pretty huge.

>>8159012

You can't please everyone, but whether or not you should be hurt, depends on the kind of feedback you got.

If it's "shit sux kill urself faget", it doesn't matter.

If they gave reasonable feedback, pointed out things that you should be embarrassed about, and made you feel like an idiot, well, the world is not a hugbox. It's sometimes hard to accept your faults and improve, but most people will always be indifferent on your work - bad reviews should be appreciated also, since someone went through your work with enough detail to point out what sucked.

>>8159026

This makes the review itself seem bad tho.

>tfw people levy critiques against your style because they don't get it ir aren't okay with anything less than sleek