Scott Myers of the excellent Go Into the Story blog today shared his thoughts on success and failure as a writer, and how the two aren’t as far apart as you might think. He writes:
When legendary football coach Vince Lombardi would speak in public, he rarely strayed far from two closely related subjects: success and failure. One quote I’ve always remembered is this one:
“In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.”
It seems to me this embodies a mindset writers would do well to embrace for it re-frames the prospect of failure: Instead of fearing it, why not look at it as a necessary possibility whenever we strive to create something great?
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