Apr 11, 2007

Chicken Soup

Just completed 'Chicken soup for the Writer's Soul', one of the chicken soup series books. Yes, earlier I was averse to these feel good, chocolaty sweet motivational stuff, but somehow the 'writer's part caught my fancy. I must say I was pleasantly surprised.
I guess the difference between this and others would be that instead of the usual theme of how the world at large benefits from the insights, here, the individual - the writer benefits from other's experience. The stories were of well known and some lesser known writers as written by them. The one lesson that kept repeating in almost every writer's experience was that of 2Ps - Practice and Perseverance.
I was astonished to see the statistics of many great authors who were rejected repeatedly (some, for years!) and yet bounced back to produce a bestseller.

This only goes to prove that some day... some day I too might have a chance!
But 2P comes first!!

3 comments:

Just Me said...

Woohoo!! Keep going!

Here's hoping we'll see a book by you in the stands some day soon :)

RustyNeurons said...

Just me, thanks a ton!

Anonymous said...

2P or not 2P- that is the question.
(random)
Yeah rusty, totally looking forward to seeing your writings in print