Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Persistence”
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” — Louis L’Amour And Louis L’Armour knew how to turn that faucet on. This is a record of his work. L’Amour eventually wrote 100 novels, over 250 short stories, and (as of 2010) sold more than 320 million copies of his work. By the 1970s …
A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. – Bo Bennett If you read my last post, you know that I shared about a rejection that hit me hard just when I thought I might be moving toward success. Isn’t that the way of it sometimes? Just when you think things are going …
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” ― Ovid Persistence. Perseverance. Those two words had to be the ones I needed most along my writing journey. I could believe I had some talent at putting words together. I could string enough together to make a story. I had even managed to string 70,000 or so words …
I was up until the wee hours of morning trying to get rid of all the unnecessary words in my work in progress so I could send it off to my editor today. I hit the send button an hour ago. Well, I did sleep in between giving up on making the manuscript perfect and hitting that send button. It’s …
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. – Walter Elliot Back in 2008 when I started this blog, One Writer’s Journal, I gathered quotes to share on the middle of the week post. Later I started doing two full posts each week and have kept it up for all these years. This post …
I started writing when I was around ten years old. That means I’ve been writing a very long time. Sometimes with success. Sometimes without success – at least in publishing that writing. But the actual writing was always successful because words spilled out on paper. Perhaps not the best words. But words were written. In those childhood days, writing was …
A goal is a dream with a deadline. ~Napoleon Hill Persistence is the word I always tell aspiring writers they need to be sure is in their arsenal of writing tools. It’s good to have a gift for words. It’s even better to have the imagination to come up with unique and exciting story ideas. Enthusiasm for any project is …
Here’s a couple of quotes to help you keep on keeping on even if today you’re discouraged. We all get discouraged. Some of us sometimes wonder if we should keep trying to follow our dreams. If success is out there anywhere. So here’s some encouragement. Don’t give up. Keep dreaming. Keep working toward those dreams. “Genius, that power which dazzles …