Every day
I receive at least one email
from someone
who doesn’t know me
yet hates me.
She tears my books apart.
She tells me to do the world a favor
and stop writing.
She (and she is a different person every day)
spews awful words,
and tries to crush me.
Success comes with many costs
but one of the most challenging costs
to deal with
is the attraction of haters.
It is difficult, almost impossible,
to create
in an environment of hate.
One of my buddies,
a New York Times bestselling author,
hires someone else to deal
with the haters.
She tells this employee
she doesn’t even want to hear about it.
What I do is
only allow the haters access to me
AFTER my creating is done.
I don’t read emails
or check message boards
or look at reviews
until I’ve reached my creation quota
for the day.
When you’re successful,
some people won’t like you.
Learn to deal with it.