On Rejection and Renewal: A Note to Aspiring Novelists

Note from Nick: I’m honored to share this post with you today, considering its author! Read itapply it, and live it!

You’ve spent months, perhaps years, composing your novel. You’ve read and reread it hundreds of times. You’ve rethought it, rewritten it, and revised it, changed characters, dialogue and plot lines. Writing your novel is the most important thing in your life. It has absorbed your attention, almost exclusively. Both your conscious and your subconscious mind have been obsessed wit...