How do you stay motivated to write in the face of readers that comment just to tear your fic down?
Basically what the question says. I have my fic limited to archive users only which means I haven’t gotten as many bot comments as some people. I’m not entirely sure if this person even was a bot or just a miserable excuse for a human. I didn’t engage and I’ve deleted the comments and blocked them to prevent them from commenting further, but this whole thing has me doubting my own craft a bit. How do you generally go about continuing to pursue the project in the face of unnecessary hate? (And yes I know the easiest way is to develop a thicker skin, but given that this is something I’m writing for free and the other person is reading for free I’m just a bit stunned at the utter disregard for how that comment would come across to the writer). TIA!