Day Six – My Five Failures

Today’s major confrontation with failure: submitted to McSweeney’s.

I don’t think it’ll be selected because it’s not that good. I tweaked it a bit this afternoon, but I think the concept itself was weak. Who cares, though? It felt good to dust off the short-form comedy skills and send it off. It will likely take a few more submissions before I can hit my rhythm, but eventually one will make it through, and that will feel so good. 

I think the reason the possibility of this failure doesn’t sca...