lulled me from my dreams.
I was living them then.
I know this now. Only
now, I'm asleep.
now, I'm asleep.
Perfect vision looking back --
doesn't mean it's too late
to try again. For
all the times I failed as a writer,
I know that
my greatest success was not
how many people were
moved by my work, how much
money I made, how close I came to
overcoming my fear of failure, but that
I continued to write.
My greatest failures were not how many
paycheques came too late, how many
rejection letters I received, how many more
query letters I was too afraid to write,
how many hours I spent
sitting in front of my computer
on Facebook rather than writing or
calling or researching or goddammit
trusting that I'm a good writer and
should and must write. Because writing
is fragile life, and patience nourishes
creativity, that persistent embryo.
