Defining Success in Writing: A Personal Journey of Twenty-Five Years

Judge success or failure on your terms and your terms alone. Only then will you know if you, personally, have what it takes.

I saw an interesting Reddit post the other day. The author claimed to have been writing for twenty-five years, but despite “Sending stories out. revising novels. taking writing classes,” it never really “clicked” for them.

Twenty-five years is a long time, and it’s in the same ballpark I’ve...