Critics Beware!

I haven’t been posting much lately because all of my creative energy is going into several projects soon to be unveiled (Critics beware!). Relevant Magazine has an article too good to pass up, however: 10 Creativity Tips From Donald Miller:

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/whole-life/features/24941-10-tips-from-donald-miller-on-creativity?start=1

The following tip particularly caught my attention for the obvious reasons:

How a Creator Handles Critics

Many would-be creators remain consumers because they fear criticism. Perhaps they created something, thinking they’d be encouraged for their work, and they were, but then they read something or heard something critical and felt they were being treated unfairly and were scared back into consumer-mode, sitting on the sidelines.

All creators get criticized. There are many people who cannot create, but wanting glory, they will use creators and their criticisms of creators to get into the spotlight. I’m not talking about helpful criticism, teacher to student criticism, I’m talking about the modern fare of criticism floating around on the Internet, which is the equivalent of a junior high slam book.

This is going to bother you at first, but you must move through it to a higher evolution of the creative life if you are going to become a great creator.

JN