Coping With Micro-Rejection
Being a writer sucks sometimes, but I love it more than I’d love being a bartender.
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I hosted a live chat with Jeff Goins a while back and he started out by quoting Elizabeth Gilbert: “Writing was my home.”
I went out to find the context of the quote. This is what I found, from a TED Talk:
“And you have to understand that for me, going home did not mean returning to my family’s farm. For me, going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home, because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing, which is to say that I loved writing more than I loved my own ego,which is ultimately to say that I loved writing more than I loved myself. And that’s how I pushed through it.”
“Writing was my home” is the soundbite-worthy part, here, but it’s this that really stands out to me: I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing.