I just wanted to pipe in that having your first business fail means absolutely nothing. I don't have the statistics on me, but a lot of successful business owners are on their second or third business. They refer to the first business as a "learning experience" or I remember hearing one say "baptism by fire" though I'm not sure how that rhetoric would sit on this forum.
The same with writing. If you go into it thinking that your first story is going to be the next Shakespeare, putting your name of college syllabi for years to come, then you are setting yourself up for failure. Stephen King had tons of rejection notes before he got published. They were a source of pride for him, not because he had failed but because he was going at it so hard.
I know I am on the "other side" in these parts of the web, but not following through is something that I definitely understand. I have a degree that I am not using and right now I am looking into anything but what the degree is for. I have no idea what I am doing with my life right now, feeling completely useless. But I found something that I really want for myself (it just happens to be writing as well) and I have made the decision to just do it because . . . why the hell not? I want it. For me. Since I made that decision, though, I have given up on it more times than an atheists curses God in Sunday traffic, but I'm still at it.
Honestly, I'm jealous that you had a "shop" at all. I always thought that would be cool. I never had the guts to set something like that up.
Anyway, take that as you will from the delusional guy in the corner.
The same with writing. If you go into it thinking that your first story is going to be the next Shakespeare, putting your name of college syllabi for years to come, then you are setting yourself up for failure. Stephen King had tons of rejection notes before he got published. They were a source of pride for him, not because he had failed but because he was going at it so hard.
I know I am on the "other side" in these parts of the web, but not following through is something that I definitely understand. I have a degree that I am not using and right now I am looking into anything but what the degree is for. I have no idea what I am doing with my life right now, feeling completely useless. But I found something that I really want for myself (it just happens to be writing as well) and I have made the decision to just do it because . . . why the hell not? I want it. For me. Since I made that decision, though, I have given up on it more times than an atheists curses God in Sunday traffic, but I'm still at it.
Honestly, I'm jealous that you had a "shop" at all. I always thought that would be cool. I never had the guts to set something like that up.
Anyway, take that as you will from the delusional guy in the corner.
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton
