Grateful for Every No
More than 200 rejections over 20 years? Yeppers! It’s been a long, wild, winding road to publication.
Category: Milestones
If you’re comfortable, you’re probably not growing
Rejection is often uncomfortable, but if you’re comfortable you’re probably not growing. Feedback, even when it feels brutal, is essential to improve.
A lot can happen in a year
Writers are always working on a dozen things at once, and usually toward some sort of deadline. First drafts. (And seconds, and thirds, and fourths.) Websites. Conferences. Blogs. Contest entries. Social media. Queries. Submissions. Revisions. We rarely stop long enough to take stock of where […]