What Nearly 80 Rejections Have Taught Me

Since I was 11 or 13 years old and I found novels I could immerse myself in, I have wanted to be a writer. Whether it was a Trixie Belden mystery, Walter Farley or Farley Mowat, John Steinbeck or Ted Dekker, Patricia Briggs or Diana Gabaldon, I love a good story.

If you want to write a novel, you just sit down and write. That’s what I thought. My very first attempt at a novel was a story about talking squirrels. Laugh it up. Thirty years ago that was insane, but now we have Hoodwinked‘s Twitc...