I quote Bradbury a lot in my last newsletter. One of his phrases that keeps me going is: "If it hurts, don't do it." Unless writers are masochists. Kidding. Even with the rejections, writing still makes me happy. And there are acceptances. They matter big time and they keep me writing.
Someone famous (but I've forgotten who) said: "A submission is a wager." It's exciting, and depends much more on skill and enterprise than does, say, buying a lottery ticket. It's a judgment and risk on both sides. Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes the bug. With practice you build strategies as well as technical skills, so it's a multi-layered challenge with infinite ways to grow. Pulitzer-prize winning poets get 90% rejections, so my stats are as good as anyone's, though, qualitatively, I have unlimited ways to level up.
I quote Bradbury a lot in my last newsletter. One of his phrases that keeps me going is: "If it hurts, don't do it." Unless writers are masochists. Kidding. Even with the rejections, writing still makes me happy. And there are acceptances. They matter big time and they keep me writing.
Someone famous (but I've forgotten who) said: "A submission is a wager." It's exciting, and depends much more on skill and enterprise than does, say, buying a lottery ticket. It's a judgment and risk on both sides. Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes the bug. With practice you build strategies as well as technical skills, so it's a multi-layered challenge with infinite ways to grow. Pulitzer-prize winning poets get 90% rejections, so my stats are as good as anyone's, though, qualitatively, I have unlimited ways to level up.
Maybe we’re just addicted to words, sentences, language, dreams, intricate personalities, and possibilities…