Comments on: Charlie Stross on dealing with reviews http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/music-opinion/charlie-stross-on-dealing-with-reviews/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/music-opinion/charlie-stross-on-dealing-with-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-21105 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:13:18 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=5688#comment-21105 Been talking about this with a musician friend of mine – we both agreed that mixed reviews are far better than no reviews.

And it does make a difference who a review is from. I’ve recently seen a very positive review from someone that had previously been very critical of the band. That’s worth a lot more than the words of one of the cheerleaders who’s positive about everything they do.

]]> By: Serdar http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/music-opinion/charlie-stross-on-dealing-with-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-21104 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:58:53 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=5688#comment-21104 It is overwhelmingly difficult to find good criticism of any stripe, be it positive or negative. My feeling is that an author should strive to cultivate a connection with a couple of people they know well, whose opinions they trust and which are provided with a good deal of work to back it up, and to remain perennially critical of their own achievements, in the sense of there always being room to improve. By all means, do not build your own echo chamber.

This I find is one of the hazards of being self-published — it’s too easy to create a cheerleading clique that believes you can do no wrong, and which offers you no substantive feedback about anything you do.

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