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Your Writing Is Made Of Sunlight
How energy becomes another manuscript in the slush pile
In one of the writing courses I took as an aspiring science fiction writer the instructor told us something that I will never forget.
“The life of a writer,” he said, “is a series of vicious kicks in the teeth.”
Wow. It says so much and rings so true. This was years ago, and the weight of years just make his comment more powerful.
As a writer, you work hard. Most of the work you do is unpaid. You don’t just write, you also have to research, and edit, and promote, and find photos, and promote some more, and sell, (promote) and you learn computers, keyboards, social media and more. You post. Then you edit again. And, it just goes on and on.
It is even more exhausting work if you are courting a literary agent for a longer work, such as a novel.
What really sticks with you is that you do all this hard work, often, to be rejected. A lot. Especially if you are an unknown author, rejection becomes as familiar to you as your toothbrush.
It makes one wonder why we put ourselves through this.
The answer, I think, is magic. It is magic of nature, the light of the sun.