Writing is Not for the Faint of Heart

 

 

But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded." 
2 Chronicles 15:7                              

Writing is not for the faint of heart...Oh no....

If you don't have a passion for writing and a thick skin for rejection...you really shouldn't be a writer.

It's hours of struggling over the keyboard typing out the words then, hitting delete, delete, delete. Or in the times of Mark Twain staring at the blank page. Forming character's and their personalities; the good the bad and the ugly...humor and death and life and learning. Grammar and punctuation a never ending process...

It's toiling over pages for hours in hair pulling frustration, to create the perfect descriptions...changing and rearranging...deleting or adding words, sentences and whole chapters. Printing pages and reading and re-reading only to have it edited and changed again...

And then when you think you've refined and have a master piece...that's flawless...after months of proofing; the pain of marketing comes into play...it is anything but play!

Congratulations!

Your baby is finally born and you want to share her with the world!

Oo's and Ah's come from family and friends, of course they love her...but the real test comes when you send her out into the cruel, dark, world. She's displayed and examined then rejected. Oh the pain! It goes deep as you watch your little one, flounder around, only to be tossed aside and ignored.

I'm here to tell you, you better have a passion for writing and you better have a strong constitution...because without it...you will simply give up! Writers want you to read what they write, not, what you, write!

Believe me having a book published and made into a best seller is one of life's great mysteries...

Love for the craft keeps you strong, it's more like a calling really! There's a drive within your soul that will not let you go! You don't want to let go...sleepless nights, researching and laboring over and over again on how to develop your skills, it's maddening. And after years of trying and failing but never giving up, a finite miracle happens, someone picks up your little darling and she soars!

It's every writers dream!