Comments on: A Writer’s Lessons in Failure

By: ? Writing Links Round Up 6/11-6/16 – B. Shaun Smith

? Writing Links Round Up 6/11-6/16 – B. Shaun Smith — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:45:17 +0000

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By: LIsa Ciarfella

LIsa Ciarfella — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:13:17 +0000

"Maybe it’s best to run straight at it, helmet on. Learning how to cope with “failure” comes through loads of practice ..."

Enouh said!

By: Top Picks Thursday! For Writers & Readers 04-12-2018 | The Author Chronicles

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:01:51 +0000

[…] Webb explores something we all know too well: a writer’s lessons in failure, while Brian Jud lays out how to set author […]

By: wendyleslie

wendyleslie — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:53:35 +0000

Thank you Heather, I did accept the first "skill" required to survive and my craft did indeed need work. Am still progressing though it but if I can see a change, it must be happening.Trying to learn from each faltering step. So I'm in the second phase but love the process of writing and storytelling, so maybe, one-day soon, the stars will align (cliche alert) for me. 🙂
Thanks too, to WITS - inspiration unlimited.
Wendy

By: Julie Carrick Dalton

Julie Carrick Dalton — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:15:39 +0000

Heather, Thanks for this! "Humility serves us well." A good lesson for all of us.

By: anneclermont

anneclermont — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:54:26 +0000

Wonderful post, Heather! I woke up this morning and forced myself to sit still before I started the week and thought of humility... Apropos I read your article and found this: "Humility serves us well, not only making us kinder, more open-minded people, but it enables us to filter out the helpful advice embedded within the harsh feedback, negative reviews, or the ever-present “something to improve upon in our pages”." You've done an amazing job in continuing on with writing and blossoming your writing career, but as you say, we all have failures that lead us there. We've got to march on, learning, pursuing, otherwise how bored would we be? (I write that as I tell the kids that I'd rather go garden than try to figure out whether to accept certain aspects of the critique and dive deeper or whether to listen to the girl inside who's digging in her heels and saying "it's fine the way it is!")

By: anneclermont

anneclermont — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:47:07 +0000

In reply to Monica Cox. This is wonderful! I'll have to look up that talk by Carol Dweck as I dive into revisions...

By: Writing Links…4/9/18 – Where Genres Collide

Writing Links…4/9/18 – Where Genres Collide — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 11:05:50 +0000

[…] https://writersinthestormblog.com/2018/04/a-writers-lessons-in-failure/ “For writers, failure is a four-letter word. We fear it, we dread it, and we try to avoid it at all costs. But perhaps we give it too much power. Maybe it’s best to run straight at it, helmet on. Learning how to cope with “failure” comes through loads of practice (sadly), but it also comes through two important skills a writer needs to survive:” Something we all have experience with. Sometimes we have to do so, to learn. In failing, we can begin again until we succeed. […]

By: John W. Howell

John W. Howell — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 16:19:18 +0000

Excellent advice, Heather. Clearly you walk the talk.

By: Lisa Amowitz

Lisa Amowitz — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:43:40 +0000

Thank you so much for this. It seems that as I travel my publishing journey, that failure is usually there waiting for me and we've got to go through the same dance steps each time we meet (self-pity, anger, discouragement). Hopefully, as many of you have stated, I will learn from my encounters each time we meet. It's been long road— three agents and three published books, and it's humbling to start over and meet rejection as if you are a newcomer. But as one of you stated above, it's the love of stories and writing that pushes us forward. After a little do-se-do with my old friend Failure, we bow, part ways, and I continue my climb--a little chastened, and maybe just a bit tougher and wiser.