Being a Better Writer: The Expectation of Instant Success · 9:16pm Oct 19th, 2020
I’ll lead with a fun fact: This post was originally going to be an OP-ED last week, until I was barely into writing it and already switching into “and here’s how this comes up in writing,” at which point I realized that this was becoming a Being a Better Writer post despite what I had originally presumed about it. So it shifted over to the Topic List, and today … Well, you can clear see.
All right, so we’re diving in without a preamble: What on Earth—or whatever world you happen to be reading this on—is this all about? Most of you reading the title are probably going to guess that it’s going to be addressing the creator, and be about “tempering expectations.” And it’s not. We’ll address that briefly, but instead this post is going to be coming from a slightly different direction: that of the public.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet. Let’s start at the beginning. Or rather, what the public often sees as the beginning: The publishing of the first book.
THANK YOU for this post.
I've personally always seen as writing as a lifelong pursuit. It taking 30 years to get to peak form doesn't bother me since I'll be writing when I'm 56 anyway (don't ever plan on stopping).
But it does seem that most authors need a post like this, so thanks.