Last week,
there was a huge complaint thread
on one of the popular romance review sites.
Readers and reviewers were complaining
about writers behaving badly,
talking about how they’re damaging Romanceland,
causing the decline of the industry.
Being a writer,
I posted a comment
asking them for ideas to FIX this problem.
Silence.
The complaints stopped.
We all know complainers.
They complain about everything,
every idea, every project,
slowing down launches
and
destroying morale.
Complainers rarely suggest solutions
and seldom add anything constructive
to the conversation.
The quickest and most effective way
to silence these complainers
is to ask them
what THEY would do.