Kypris Aster Drake
Read voraciously. Write every day. Even if you don't feel inspired. Even if you think you have nothing to say.
Get support from other writers and ask your friends to read your work. Ask for feedback and do your best not to take it personally. If you want to write, you really need to know the truth.
Recently I got a fabulous rejection letter from a fiction press for a short story. I'd asked the editor to let me know what could be improved about the story. She gave me specific feedback that will help me to rewrite the story and hopefully sell it in the future. I felt a little upset that they didn't want to publish my story, but SO grateful that the editor took the time to tell me how I could improve.
Get support from other writers and ask your friends to read your work. Ask for feedback and do your best not to take it personally. If you want to write, you really need to know the truth.
Recently I got a fabulous rejection letter from a fiction press for a short story. I'd asked the editor to let me know what could be improved about the story. She gave me specific feedback that will help me to rewrite the story and hopefully sell it in the future. I felt a little upset that they didn't want to publish my story, but SO grateful that the editor took the time to tell me how I could improve.
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I have just one question and that question is, what is the purpose of life? Now, I have pondered this question ever since I was a little kid. Now that I am 75 y.o., to know what the answer is more than ever on my mind. What say you is your point of view on this matter? Your friend Jimmy
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