Loving writing when it doesn’t love me back

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about success and love and feelings of accomplishment, mostly because I have working on a number of guest posts on what makes me feel successful as a writer. (Check out my recent post on Sione Aeschliman’s blog on my personal definition of success.)

And of course loves factors into that because I love what I do. I love writing—the act of writing, the creation of something that hadn’t existed before, the putting down in concrete form what had hitherto existed only...