HOW DO YOU DEFINE SUCCESS IN YOUR WRITING?

Was Emily Dickinson a success?
  Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of victory
As he defeated – dying – On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!


When Emily Dickinson died in 1884, she was unknown as a poet outside of a small circle of family and friends. 

Dickinson’s poetic legacy consisted of almost 1800 poems, and no instructions about what to do with them.

The story of how those close to her battled obscurity and each other to publish her poems 

could be a riveting novel all by itself!

If you died without knowing whether your novels meant anything to anyone, 

would it matter if in the future they did?


Success
Is success in your writing always upping the game to your tales, always improving in your craft, 

or is it merely revealed in your sales figures?

Writers struggle to define success, 

for it is like the horizon, forever out of reach no matter how far you travel in your writing journey.

Tell me what you think, will you?


THE TWO WINNERS OF THE MYSTERY PRIZES FOR COMMENTS ON MY GUEST POST ON ALEX'S BLOG


 THE CYNICAL SAILORwho wins the audio book


and 

ROBYN ALANA ENGEL
who wins the audio book




Thank You To All Who Commented
I will draw two more prizesfrom those who comment tomorrow!