Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Take Heart

I love you guys.


Here you are reading me, and I thought I was a voice lost in the wilderness. so, to you other writers--gosh I feel I have a  kinship with you--here is something that will warm your cockles. 

Take heart.

From  Ray Bradbury:

"Starting  when I was fifteen I began to send short stories to magazines like Esquire, and they, very promptly, sent them back two days before they got them!

"I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn’t realize what a strong person I was; I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn.

"Then, during the late forties, I actually began to sell short stories and accomplished some sort of deliverance from snowstorms in my fourth decade. But even today, my latest books of short stories contain at least seven stories that were rejected by every magazine in the United States and also in Sweden! So … take heart from this. The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so