Dear sugar is supported by.
The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heartsick.
Sugar is here, the both of us speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
I'm Steve Almond.
This is dear sugar, radio.
Oh, dear song, won't you please share some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell vibes every day.
Oh, and the sugar you send my way.
Dear Sugar, I am a writer struggling to accept my first bad reviews and then somehow let them go.
It's a privilege problem.
My first book is making its way in the world, and that is a gift I'm grateful for.
But it is a piece of work so close to my heart, so deeply personal, that every time I receive a negative review, I feel it like a punch in the gut.
I begin to think that my book is not only mediocre, it is bad.
A worthless bunch of words that was never good enough to publish.
This process is only just beginning, and if I'm lucky, I'll write more books and will get more bad reviews.
But.
But I have to ask, is there a way through these devastating feelings?
Is there some shortcut, some magical technique to make it hurt less?
How do you guys do it?