How to Get Out of a Funk When the Criticism Is Outweighing the Good Things

It helps if you've sold enough books and started to get to that point in your career, it's a little helpful. You can somewhat gauge things by whether there's a consensus on something. If two people, independent of each other, say the same thing, like that characters flat and needs more personality than maybe there's something to that. Where can you get tough as when you start to get contradicting notes from bater readers. And it's why i think there's a kind of a sweet spot on how many people you use. It does come with time some con hopefully, if you survive all the early years and the first books.