Seems like I do a lot of waiting. Waiting for the college to call for an interview. Waiting for that boy to call. Waiting for school to get over so I can publish my thesis. Waiting for this depression to hit the road. Waiting to be discovered. Waiting for agents to get back. Waiting for … Continue reading The Waiting Game (#2?)
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A Note on Persistence and Optimism
This past February, I lost a self-published adult fiction contest. There were only sixty-six entries, and Devil's Blood didn't even make it into the top twenty. Want to know how I felt? Awful. Dreadful. Worthless. A failure. Hopeless. Like a old sack of potatoes not good enough for anything but the garbage dump. It took … Continue reading A Note on Persistence and Optimism