Perseverance AKA Bum Glue
When I first started writing, I read a book that said your millionth word will be the one that gets published. Or your third novel. Or if you write for ten years. I am here to say that was the truth at least for me. Back then, I thought to myself, wow! That's going to take some serious bum glue! Bum Glue : (v) The ability to be able to sit for long periods of time and produce something that doesn’t seem to be of immediate value, without seeing immediate results. I thought to myself, well, ten years are going to pass whether I wrote or not, why not write? It was a cheap hobby and healthy at least mentally, not so much physically as I feel like a sloth with a laptop and a bazillion stories competing for screen time. But what makes people successful? Is it their brilliance? Or is it that they just kept at it long enough to be good? Is talent more important than skill? In ten years could I learn the skills to write well? If I put in the time and learned my craft would I acc...