AH! I’m not the only one :-). A similar thought to the one I wrote lamenting why I don’t believe I will ever be a commercial success with my writing.
Intro:
Back in February of 2013, I wrote a little blog post called Writing Tips: How to Handle Rejection. A huge part of this post was dedicated to John Tompkins. At the time, he wrote a blog called Rejection Love Letters (Or How to Lose Agents and Alienate Publishers). That blog no longer exists, but it was one of my favorites. Why? Because John Tompkins had a fearlessness many crave. He shared his rejection letters from publishers with humor and honesty, and while I think every writer has been rejected, he was open about it, and that is rare. Since then, he has since self-published, and today, he is writing an article for us about another topic many authors can relate to—working and writing, as two separate full-time jobs.
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When Writing is Not All You Do
Writing is easy. Getting published is hard. This is especially true for…
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Dana Ellington, MAPW 