![]() ![]() ![]() Rejections abound. You need to be made of steel, people. Excuse me while I go suck down my caffeine and try not to smack you. What’s so hard about it? Just today, the Starbucks dude told me he was writing a memoir as he passed me my extra-huge latte. Non-writers think being a writer is easy. Anyone can write, for God’s sake. All of that definitely benefits you as a writer, but… in the end, it’s about the people with the power deciding if what you’ve written will sell.Ģ. Sure, you can improve your writing by studying the craft, going to conferences, taking workshops, whatever. Likewise, it may be bad writing, but they think it will sell. It may be “good” writing, but they may not like it. But the truth is, they like what they like. Literary agents are the industry’s gatekeepers because they’ve seen so much crap they can recognize the good from the bad. Whether your writing is “good” is completely and utterly subjective. Sure, there’s really, really good writing, and then there’s really, really bad writing. How does writing suck? Oh, let me count the ways…ġ. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer-and if so, why?” ~Bennett Cerf, Co-founder of Random House Pope took money to keep a woman’s name out of a satire then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized. Marlowe was stabbed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. (What? No one has ever said that to me, I swear. ![]() It makes you want to cry like a little girl who was just told she has a major uni-brow and needs to pluck that damn thing. ![]() It batters your ego and makes you question your abilities. Writing for money chews you up and spits you out like nothing else. Ask any successful writer if they think their jobs suck, and chances are they’ll tell you that at some point, it really did. (I am currently hoping my father still hasn’t figured out how to navigate Google and has forgotten my website address). When I say “suck,” I mean it in the most offensive, most disgusting, most appalling way. It doesn’t matter much what I’m writing - a how-to article on banana clips, an academic piece on the Reformation, a high-adventure fantasy/sci-fi - chances are, I will enjoy writing it.Īnd this is a very, very good thing. On the other hand, if you quit, losing is always certain.I love to write. That's how winners are born and how battles are won, by keeping on going when the odds are against them and their team. You should never give up on life or quit your dreams no matter how hard the situation is, perseverance will make you strong and ready to face adversity. You need to try, learn your lessons and keep improving along the way, try again, learn a new lesson, try again and again until you get what you want. Why is it important to never give up? Most things in life aren't achievable with only one try, so if you're constantly quitting you won't get far. Whatever the case might be, one thing is certain: by quitting we have a lot to lose and little to gain. Why? Because it's the easy thing to do? Because we don't want to face adversity? We don't want to feel rejection? Or be labelled as failures? We've all been through: we have a good idea, we create a good plan of action, we start to actually executing that plan but, something goes wrong. ![]()
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