I've been at the 'ambitious, honest, failure' stage of writing for a years, now. I've sat down in person with famous editors and had them tell me that my stories were flawless but too weird to make print. I've got stacks of rejection slips that read, "This is great, but doesn't fit our needs".
It's incredibly frustrating.
I no longer worry about my technical chops as a writer. My challenge is to connect to other human beings, with whom I barely have anything in common. That's a much, much, more difficult challenge. I envy those who have an innate knack for understanding people and society, and who only have to learn how to write.
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Date: 2009-12-09 04:30 pm (UTC)It's incredibly frustrating.
I no longer worry about my technical chops as a writer. My challenge is to connect to other human beings, with whom I barely have anything in common. That's a much, much, more difficult challenge. I envy those who have an innate knack for understanding people and society, and who only have to learn how to write.