still working

18th December 2016 | for Creatives | the successful artist, writing, KEEP CREATING, feedback/criticism/rejection, Kathryn Stockett  |       

still working

"After rejection No. 40, I started lying to my friends about what I did on the weekends.  They were amazed by how many times a person could repaint her apartment.  The truth was, I was embarrassed for my friends and family to know I was still working on the same story, the one nobody apparently wanted to read."

— Kathryn Stockett

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