Particularly poignant today, trying to keep things rolling while the power keeps being turned off at the studio. It has been a trying day. But we all get them, right? I think it says more about you when you choose to get up than say to hell with it and lay down and give up. I consider that I have been very fortunate in my life. I am having an interesting career, but it has not always been easy sailing. I am reminded of it every time I write a rejection letter for a submitted script. It is a difficult thing to write, knowing that the recipient of the e-mail has spent a chunk of their life writing the script. I am no stranger to knock-backs and yet I have succeeded doing most of what I have set out to do. As a DJ in the 1980’s I joked that I have been thrown off more stages than John Wayne. As a writer and illustrator, I have amassed a fair number of my own rejection letters. The question is what to do? Give up? Or see where we can improve and keep trying to push forward, which has always been my way.
Let me pop the question back to you, what did you learn from a big disappointment? Do you dust yourself down and have another go?
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