Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Futility of Chasing a “Successful” Writing Career

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The Futility of Chasing a "Successful" Writing Career

The Futility of Chasing a “Successful” Writing Career

The writer Emily Gould has a lovely essay for Medium this week — an excerpt from a new book of essays called MFA vs. NYC — on the way her Big Triumph, the sale of a book of essays for the fantastic sum of $200,000, turned out to be a sort of professional albatross. “It took me a while to realize that my book had failed. No one ever told me point-blank that it had,” she writes. “It was more like the failure occurred in tiny increments over the course of two years, after which it was too late to develop a solid Plan B.” … Read More

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