Happy New Year, everyone. May it be a year of peace.
I leave you with this from Neil Gaiman. A propos for anybody, but especially for a writer, especially one embarking on a new project, writing that first query, dealing with that first rejection:
I hope that in the year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze. Don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.
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