Yesterday, I kept refreshing my email waiting for confirmation that I got accepted into the Baltimore Book Festival. They said they'd email by close of business, so when I didn't see an email by the time I went to bed, I figured I didn't get accepted. Then this morning, I opened my email and, sure enough, I got a confirmation email! Yay! I'm in! But then that got me thinking. What if I hadn't gotten in? Does that make me a failure? What is success anyway?
Last night I checked my Amazon sales...
So you want to be a writer? Well, so have I since I was about 4 or 5 years old. Ever since then I've been churning out stories, my first being The Pepper, about a little girl who finds herself caught in a storm of black pepper swirling around her neighborhood. She goes from place to place trying to get away, and finally escapes to her bubble bath. I guess I've always preferred sci-fi/fantasy.
Life went on and I continued writing, mostly for school, but I didn't really write for pleasure. I...
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