Let’s talk about rejection and motivation and why we’re doing this writing gig. What motivates us?
And what maybe should be motivating us instead?
Because I’ve been writing a while now. Writing and querying and hoping. And getting a whole heap of (encouraging) rejections.
But… nonetheless… they’re still rejections.
I signed up to NaNoWriMo again this year. NaNoWriMo rocks. But – I’ll just come out and say it – my NaNoWriMo 2018 sucked. Badly. It sucked even before I got knocked down by the flu and had to completely stop to recover.
So… why did writing – one of my favourite things – suddenly suck?
Real talk here, people… it sucked because I was forcing the story
Whoever says that writing isn’t fun and you’ve got to push through the hard bits is talking a language I don’t understand. Kudos to them, but I’ve had an epiphany about how I write. And it ain’t about dragging a story out kicking and screaming, while simultaneously bashing my head against the keyboard.
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