Persistence
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This blog is about persistence. Persistence is a positive character trait, unless it isn’t. I am writing this as an author. A first draft is seldom good enough, even if it is more fun to write. To make a manuscript worth reading takes persistence. It must be rewritten, checked, submitted to alpha readers to get feedback, rewritten, and listened to while following in the text. Then it must go to beta readers, and rewritten. After which the story must go to editors and be rewritten. Persistence is needed.
When the manuscript is ready it goes out to agents to query. Once again persistence is essential. One agent is seldom enough. Despite rejection you keep trying. Each no from an agent is a step closer to a yes. A yes may come someday if you persist. What a writer must not be is persistent with a specific agent after the book is rejected.
Many agents are rude enough not to answer a submission with a rejection. They are so busy they don’t have time to send a preformatted rejection to the writer who has spent thousands of hours on the story, The best agents are professional enough to send a rejection. The writer must be wise enough not to persist with that agent on the current work. Persistently trying other agents yes. But the agents are busy and not inviting arguments with their decision. The writer must accept no and not persist with that agent.
Frustrating for the writer is while they understand no is no on their book, looking in the other direction, they are deluged with contacts from marketers of one kind and another. Sadly, most of these author vendors know the same lesson. They do not accept no is no. Thus, an author who is polite enough to answer must waste writing time every day being persistent in telling them no, again.
I love writing and hope in a few more years I will finally be an overnight success. I’ll just persist in writing and accept every day will start after I tell more marketers I am not adding to my team. I hope you have fun in your day today.
This blog is about persistence. Persistence is a positive character trait, unless it isn’t. I am writing this as an author. A first draft is seldom good enough, even if it is more fun to write. To make a manuscript worth reading takes persistence. It must be rewritten, checked, submitted to alpha readers to get feedback, rewritten, and listened to while following in the text. Then it must go to beta readers, and rewritten. After which the story must go to editors and be rewritten. Persistence is needed.
When the manuscript is ready it goes out to agents to query. Once again persistence is essential. One agent is seldom enough. Despite rejection you keep trying. Each no from an agent is a step closer to a yes. A yes may come someday if you persist. What a writer must not be is persistent with a specific agent after the book is rejected.
Many agents are rude enough not to answer a submission with a rejection. They are so busy they don’t have time to send a preformatted rejection to the writer who has spent thousands of hours on the story, The best agents are professional enough to send a rejection. The writer must be wise enough not to persist with that agent on the current work. Persistently trying other agents yes. But the agents are busy and not inviting arguments with their decision. The writer must accept no and not persist with that agent.
Frustrating for the writer is while they understand no is no on their book, looking in the other direction, they are deluged with contacts from marketers of one kind and another. Sadly, most of these author vendors know the same lesson. They do not accept no is no. Thus, an author who is polite enough to answer must waste writing time every day being persistent in telling them no, again.
I love writing and hope in a few more years I will finally be an overnight success. I’ll just persist in writing and accept every day will start after I tell more marketers I am not adding to my team. I hope you have fun in your day today.
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