Column #3: FAIL
Want to be a writer?
•Fail
•A lot
•Rejoice in failure (ok, that maybe's going too far):
•Be ok with failure
•How to get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.
•Failing is practice
•Like a stuntman, do it without getting hurt
•Like a stuntwoman, learn the right way to fall
•Like baseball, there's no crying (or at least not for long)
•There's only the stubbornness to see failure as prelude...
•Tattoo this somewhere: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
•Research says it takes 10,000 hours to perfect a skill.
•See every rejection as notes on how to get there quicker.
•Make failing work for you
•Expect it. Learn from it.
•99% of writing is rewriting; all but 1% then is failing.
•Get it?
•Don't let it get you. In order to pass, let yourself:
•Fail.
Want to be a writer?
•Fail
•A lot
•Rejoice in failure (ok, that maybe's going too far):
•Be ok with failure
•How to get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.
•Failing is practice
•Like a stuntman, do it without getting hurt
•Like a stuntwoman, learn the right way to fall
•Like baseball, there's no crying (or at least not for long)
•There's only the stubbornness to see failure as prelude...
•Tattoo this somewhere: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
•Research says it takes 10,000 hours to perfect a skill.
•See every rejection as notes on how to get there quicker.
•Make failing work for you
•Expect it. Learn from it.
•99% of writing is rewriting; all but 1% then is failing.
•Get it?
•Don't let it get you. In order to pass, let yourself:
•Fail.