Saturday, August 28, 2010

Persistence

Word challenge:  CACHINNATION (what you can do for only a few minutes before following Asimov's advice below)--see end of post for definition

American science-fiction novelist Isaac Asimov wrote: "You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. Yu send that work out again and again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success--but only if you persist."

So for all the writers out there who are discouraged by a rejection (or perhaps even rejections), keep on trying!

Martin De Leon research fact for the day: De Leon used a three-pound cannon to scare some Karankawas.

The word "cachinnation" means loud or hysterical laughter.

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