Dear Writer:
A word of advice from someone who has been riding the writing roller coaster for thirty years.
Life, at its simplest, is a series of time blocks. One second, one minute, one hour, one day. Thousands of finite segments with beginnings and ends, which means thousands of fresh starts. With every sweep of the clock hand, you have the opportunity to begin again, and again, and again.
The Japanese have a saying, “Nana korobi ya oki,” meaning “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” The truth is, however, that you have a lot more than eight chances. So if you stumble today, don’t quit. Throw out that rejection letter, forget yesterday’s writer’s block, ignore your internal critic, and get up again. You WILL succeed.
