From Edie: Tim Suddeth reminds us that writers can’t be chosen if they never submit. Discover why taking chances, risking rejection, and redefining success are essential to the writing life.
You Can’t Be Chosen If You Never Submit: Taking Chances as a Writer
by Tim Suddeth @TimSuddeth
“I never win anything.” (Cue the violinist.)
Don’t we hear, and say, that a lot. It’s often an automatic response when we win a raffle or a contest. Or really anything. It’s part false humility and part not wanting to hurt others.
And for writers, isn’t that what we think as we enter our works into contests? I never win but I’ll send it in anyway.
Or worse, we think, “I never win, so why bother?” And we don’t send it in.
