Constantly Failing Upwards

by Abir

 

Which do you find harder to cope with, success or failure? In either event do you have ways to keep the world's view of your work from affecting your work?

 

Interesting question today. 

 

Success and failure – those two imposters, but which is easier to live with?

 

As my colleagues have pointed out earlier in the week, success is always relative. It’s incremental. It’s getting your first agent, then your first book deal; it’s getting long-listed, then shortlisted, then winning awards; it’s y...