charlesatan has gone and interviewed Paul Di Filippo, who happens to be my favorite fiction writer. Coolness! Paul says:
"In my first year of trying, I wrote approximately 750,000 words--that's three-quarters-of-a-million--without selling one story. But as Bradbury says, that's how you burn off the chaff and improve. The biggest hurdle comes from within the writer himself: maintaining confidence and faith in the face of continual rejection."
Read it
HERE.
And as I mentioned last post,
aliettedb's "A Basic Introduction to Chinese Mythology and Folklore" is up at
The Nebula Awards site.
Don't miss!