Call for submissions — How do you deal with not being heard?

For me, one of the most emotional parts of being an emerging creative is feeling like no one is listening. You put hours into an article, weeks into a painting or photo or years into a book without any real kind of audience.

That sense of sending your work out into the abyss can suck the life out of you.

So let’s talk about it. How do you deal with putting all this effort into your creativity without having a significant audience? Do you get down on yourself? Does it motivate you to create better work? Is there a time limit you’re giving yourself to build what you would consider a significant audience?

Same rules as always:

If you’re already a writer for CRY, go ahead and submit.If you’re not a writer for CRY but would like to submit to this request, let us know and we’ll add you ASAP.Just because you submit doesn’t mean we’ll post. If you haven’t heard back from us in three days, consider that a pass.Deadline for submission is this Thursday, July 2.

I’m excited about all of our submission requests, but this one I’m particularly interested in. Please reach out if you have any questions at all. If you are new to Medium, here’s how you submit a draft to a publication.

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