Persistence
Harry Connolly writes sensibly on persistence.
To which I'd add (in re improvement) writers who declare that their lack of success is because they write literature while the rest of the world writes (and reads) crap are probably not going to improve. We don't actually get to decide if our stuff is "literature." That's entirely up the the readership. And "classics" are up to future generations.
To which I'd add (in re improvement) writers who declare that their lack of success is because they write literature while the rest of the world writes (and reads) crap are probably not going to improve. We don't actually get to decide if our stuff is "literature." That's entirely up the the readership. And "classics" are up to future generations.