Are your expectations even realistic given your current reality, tho?

Writers don’t fail from bad books. They fail from failing to grasp the reality of the situation. Luckily, this is fixable.

Hi,

You pour your soul into the work. You sacrifice time, sleep, and sanity. You finish an impossible thing. Then it comes out, and the world shrugs. That’s what breaks people. Not the work or the rejection, but the gap between what you thought would happen and what actually did.

And the gap is almost always about expectations. Even if we don’t say it ou…