Worry does help! Trust! It is okay! Know that just what is supposed to happen will happen.
Know that the greatest and most famous authors in the world and throughout time have recieved rejection letters. Who hasn't been rejected? But we have ALL also been embraced.
I will never forget that sale! I was so happy and so stunned.
There have been rejections since then, and there have been editors that held positions open for me in an anthology.
A man who changed my life once told me to search for THE thing that made my heart sing. That when I had completed it, I was stunned that I have even done it. That when I was doing that, I was "channeling" what I was "supposed" to do.
I knew what that was. It was writing. So I wrote!
Is that how writing makes you feel? If so, then write write write write! LOVE writing, even the parts that aren't fun, like the re-writes and the re-r-ewrites and the editing and the re-editing. It is all a part of it. LOVE IT!
Have faith in yourself. Universal Energy flows where attention goes. You believe you will sell stories and you will.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2011-08-17 11:58 am (UTC)Know that the greatest and most famous authors in the world and throughout time have recieved rejection letters. Who hasn't been rejected? But we have ALL also been embraced.
I will never forget that sale! I was so happy and so stunned.
There have been rejections since then, and there have been editors that held positions open for me in an anthology.
A man who changed my life once told me to search for THE thing that made my heart sing. That when I had completed it, I was stunned that I have even done it. That when I was doing that, I was "channeling" what I was "supposed" to do.
I knew what that was. It was writing. So I wrote!
Is that how writing makes you feel? If so, then write write write write! LOVE writing, even the parts that aren't fun, like the re-writes and the re-r-ewrites and the editing and the re-editing. It is all a part of it. LOVE IT!
Have faith in yourself. Universal Energy flows where attention goes. You believe you will sell stories and you will.
Leap, baby! The net will appear!
(((HUGS))) and good luck!
BG
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Date: 2011-08-17 04:45 pm (UTC)