What Motivates My Reading Choices
My reading preferences have been somewhat eclectic over the years, and I’ve now returned to mysteries again. How about your reading preferences?
https://dianastout.net/2021/03/02/what-motivates-my-reading-choices
My reading preferences have been somewhat eclectic over the years, and I’ve now returned to mysteries again. How about your reading preferences?
https://dianastout.net/2021/03/02/what-motivates-my-reading-choices
People look at me and see success. Published in multiple media, in multiple genres, with various awards. With an MFA and a Ph.D., too, but there have been many failures along the way.
I have failed so many times I’ve lost count, from beginning, middle, and end.
In the beginning, I couldn’t get anything published. I tried big publications, national publications, regional, and small publications. All submissions boomeranged back. Once in a while, I’d get a handwritten note at the bottom of the mimeographed rejection, saying, I like your voice, or Please submit to us in the future…
Behind the Scenes with Diana Stout, MFA, PhD