Back In Business

So I realized today that it has been almost a year to the day since I've posted anything remotely useful on this blog. To all 4 of you poor souls that occasionally come here (looking for what, I don't know) I am sorry. This year will be different, I promise. This year, I shall not abandon you for the allure of sites such as Tumblr (although you can in fact find me there: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/the9thwordslinger). I have things worth writing about. And some of them are even worth reading!

Even the worst published author in the world has one talent...

As writers, we've all read a book at some point in our lives that made us say "I can write better than that!" We all have that published author that we love to hate - for example, Stephanie Meyers.

But I've realized something important. All published authors, no matter how bad their work might be, or how heinously lazy their editor was - all these people have cultivated a talent that we all need to take notice of.

Perseverance.

Despite how poorly we might say the finished work was, one thing all these authors knew how to do was persevere. They sat down at their desks every day and decided to tell a story. That, at least, is something I can respect and desire to emulate. Because perseverance is a talent. It isn't cultivated by laziness or by waiting for inspiration to strike. It is cultivated by hard work. In my experience, the more you write, the more you persevere, the more you will desire to write and to continue writing. It's a vicious circle of the best type.

See, for every Stephanie Meyers out there, there's a Neil Gaiman or a Haruki Murakami or a George R.R. Martin. So let's strive to be like these writers: strive to persevere, to tell our stories and to tell them well - without the addition of any sparkly vampires.