31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 4

Focus on Successes.

Success can take many forms. It can be an acceptance by an editor, publisher or agent.

But success can also be completing a project, writing about something that challenged you emotionally or technically, exploring a new genre or form of writing, or being brave enough to submit your work to others to read and critique.

Every writer has his or her own definition of success—something I wrote about in How Writers Measure Success — 15 Authors Share Their Thoughts. It’s also the f...