…Authors… when the trolls try to trip yer wires…

…one of the saddest features of human nature is that no matter how well sumb’dy achieves, in whatever walk of life, there’s always at least that ONE nutter who wants to carp… to rain on sumb’dy else’s parade… on Facebook today, an authoress friend of mine, an excellent scribbler, shared how one such Neanderthal tried to belittle her writing achievements… underpinning most of such throwaway punches is  jealousy, plain and simple…

…happily, the comments stream from other pals on Facebook was of the typically fabulous support from the great global writers’ diaspora… I well recall in the early days of Master Gallacher‘s foray into the heady WURLD of Auntie Amazon Kindle when the first negative commentary for one of my titles hit my review pages… it felt like a dagger through the heart (yes, Mabel, even we crusty auld Scots Jurassic writers have a heart in there sum’where)… after my initial reaction of retreating to the depths of self-doubting despair, I checked out the critic’s other reviews… he had given me a lowly TWO stars out of five… behold and lo, he had only ever done ONE other review… for John Grisham… and had given him a terrible ONE star out of five… instant sanity returned… an object lesson in BALANCE… not a quality for which many of we uber-self-critical scribes are famed, it must be said… but it taught me to treat ALL reviews and comments, good and not so good, with a healthy dose of skepticism… and as for outright trolls who appear from time to time… they’re par for the course… my methodology for dealing with them is simple… I thank them profusely for their welcome comments and then promptly block the bast*rds… they HATE that!… see yeez later… LUV YEEZ!…

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