Pause

Justine Musk writes in her post at the decadence- "failure is good for you: how practice novels helped me get published":

"Becoming a successful writer – and by this I define ‘successful’ as someone who writes publishable fiction, and by this I mean fiction that is skilled and artful enough to create a powerful emotional experience for a reader who is not the writer’s spouse, friend or family member, who doesn’t know or care about the writer at all but would be willing to do something so drastic as to pay money for the privilege of reading her work – is all about writing your way through a succession of big and little failures. There is the failure to sell your work, and the failure to get an agent, but these are capstones: the major reason why a writer fails at either is, ironically, because they haven’t yet failed enough. They haven’t pursued the craft long enough, haven’t written or revised enough, haven’t taken enough chances or gotten enough constructive feedback. They haven’t learned enough.

In short, they haven’t completed enough practice novels. And what is a practice novel but a novel that fails to be good enough to be looked on as anything else?"

Forget successful blogging, or writing- the point is you have to try and try before you come good.

She makes a reference to Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" to note that "...the difference between a beginner and someone who is successful at, well, anything, is 10,000 hours – about ten years."

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I've been trying to warm up some response at this blog, and have failed abysmally.

So what I'd do is, take a break from blogging for a month.

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Wish you well.