Dear
“I want to GIVE UP!” Writer,
There
had been a few times when I thought about giving up. Any writer worth his or
her salt has thought the same thing. When you’re so committed to a dream, but
you’re hitting road blocks or struggling, it’s very easy to throw your hands in
the air and say, “I give up! I quit! I can’t handle this anymore!”
Usually when
I said this, I was in tears; fed up with all the rejections and getting
nowhere. But did I give up? No. I didn’t have it in me to give up. You see,
writing is my life. Becoming a published author was my dream since I was twelve
(although I had been writing since I was five). I couldn’t stop writing no
matter how much I felt like throwing in the towel.
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As a
matter of fact, I still tell my mom, “Never get published.” Because although I
achieved that dream, being published is an all new ball game. It’s not easy to
publish, market, get reviews and readers, and I get fed up by it all from time
to time, especially during stressful moments.
If you
truly want to publish, you won’t give up either. You may feel like wanting to
give up when you face the dilemma of having to rewrite a book or do extensive
edits, but you pull up your bootstraps and do it.
You
may feel like burying yourself in a deep pit after months of rejections, but
you’ll take a deep breath and keep on submitting.
And
you may find all the steps to self-publish daunting and time-consuming, but
you’ll fist your hands together and do what you have to do.
That
is what a writer does: we go on even when it’s hard.
We go
on even when we want to stop.
We go
on….
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Author of Hurricane Crimes, Seismic Crimes, 30 Seconds, Ghost of Death, and Witch of Death. Blogger. Reader. Auntie. Vegetarian. Cat Lover.
