Motivation #3
By N. Bright
For self-preservation, writers must learn how to take the critiques that go along with the publishing business as objective feedback and move on. It is really the hardest thing to do and maintain productive momentum as well. You have to keep cranking those pages out, if you ever want success.
I’m blogging about ideas to help you stay motivated.
Read Author Bios
THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER by Margaret Lane, published 1946 by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd inspires me to learn more about story craft. Beatrix spent her days as a little girl in a third-floor retreat of Bolton Gardens in London, where she drew pictures and wrote stories about her pets and kept detailed field journals of plants she discovered while summering in Scotland every year.
“…she was very rarely sent for out of the nursery or taken anywhere, and she never went to school.” Thinking of that lonely child breaks my heart, or maybe I can relate since I’m an only child, but oh, what wondrous things she created in her solitude. It wasn’t until her mid-thirties that she got the notion to self-publish her own illustrated children’s book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
For inspiration, read about the writing career of your favorite authors. The internet is abundant with Q&A’s, podcasts, and website bios. After opening a particularly biting rejection, I could not force myself to write much of anything. I spent one day job shuffling piles back and forth across my desk, and then I spent lunch break watching podcast interviews in which authors talked about the spark and inspiration behind their novels. Their experiences motivated me to keep going and it also reminded me how this business runs like “molasses going up hill,” as one author described her career.
The roadblocks and successes of others can be an inspiration to you.
What Motivates You?
What motives you to keep writing and submitting, despite the rejection and bad reviews? We’d love to hear from you, too.
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