My Little Corner of Creativity

I am feeling my age.

It’s been about four or five years since I started being “active” as a writer. I had hoped to have a book published by now. Three years of submissions have shown only a runner up in a contest and lots of polite but short rejections from publisher after publisher.

I feel like my style of writing is just not something people are interested in…but it’s my own and I don’t want to change or compromise it just to suit an audience. So I continue to write my way in my own little corner of creativity.

I do feel way older than some of the other writers I have begun to follow on Twitter. I know that I shouldn’t be comparing myself to them but it’s something that happens. I compare my writing style to these others and wonder what the hell am I doing.

Ultimately, I just have to have faith that this past year of no acceptances will end soon and not continue into a second. [EDIT: I just checked my duotrope. It’s been over two years since my last acceptance. I am hoping not to make it three.]

I just have to keep believing in what I do.

Melissa Llanes Brownlee