When you don’t know for sure
Oh, hi friends!
We always want to know for certain.
What we really want.
What we’ll actually get.
Whether it's right.
What it all means.
But when do you ever really know anything for certain?
Almost never.
And yet you move forward anyway, according to how you feel. You hop from one uncertain, unsteady moment to the next. That’s OK. That’s normal. So long as you keep moving. So long as you keep hopping.
Writing and editing brains are TWO DIFFERENT BRAINS. This I know for sure.
And Remember This When You Get One Rejection Too Many…
When her debut was first submitted to publishers in 2013, there was “absolute deafening silence.”
But now Preti Taneja’s debut novel We That Are Young, a reimagining of King Lear set in contemporary India, has won a major UK prize. (h/t Charlotte Maiorana)
Try, try, try again. Always.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara