This Isn't for Thin-Skinned Writers

Do you remember what it feels like to be criticized for your writing?

Different memories come flooding back for different people. Maybe it was in junior high, when a teacher pointed out all your mistakes. Maybe it was in college when you submitted an essay to a contest, and you didn’t even place.

Maybe it was more recently, when you published a blog post or wrote a social media post that someone didn’t like … and they let you know about it in no uncertain terms.

These memories can be painful because it feels like people are criticizing us directly. They’re questioning our personal worth and stomping on our creative identity. Don’t they know how important this work is to you? Why don’t they understand that when they criticize your work, they are taking a little bit of your heart away?

But that’s precisely the problem. We are usually far too close to our work to be objective about it. What’s more, the criticism often says more about the person doing the criticizing than it does about you.

On today's episode, Kent reminds us that we all need to have thicker skin when it comes to criticism.

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