‘I opened myself up to the learning process, committing time and money to improving my craft. The happy outcome was that my next novel manuscript found a publisher, and the work I did to fund my M.A. provided inspiration for my second.’
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‘Rejection is what happens as a creative; you just have to find ways to survive it. Of course, you can learn from it…’
‘Once I’ve selected one of the poems clamouring for attention as a sacrificial victim, I’ll send it off to one of the opportunities, and mark the date.’
‘What I realise now is that it’s a war of attrition. If you want to get anywhere in the book world, you have to keep chipping away at the edifice.’