I am struggling with... this.
how do you guys take rejection without throwing the towel?
I feel like this is a game that is entirely luck based. just have the right person seeing you at the right moment.
I could just enjoy video games every weekend and stop dreaming and wanting something as unrealistic.
I know this is a from a few days ago but,
My big thing is writing novels, and the final leg of a novel is to send it to publishing houses and agents. I'm on my fourth book with zero agents or publications. You keep going because that's kind of all there is to do, right? Like you must enjoy making music or composing or mixing or whatever your branch of this thread is. It's fun. It's one of those things that gets you up in the morning. For me, once enough agents say no to a book, I just shrug and start another. Maybe that'll work. Second book went nowhere, so I decided to say fuck it and wrote my third for me and me alone. It's stupid and no one wants it, but oh well. I knew that going in (I also love it!) Number four will do better. Maybe. Probably not. That's future me's problem.
I like writing too much to just stop though, and eventually I'll self publish some stuff just to get it out there. It's not settling if I'm working on book four (or five or six or seven). Plus I'll have something out there, and that means something to me, even if it's insignificant in the grand scheme of things. I DID A THING! I mean hell, I released a video game this year that less than a hundred people have purchased, but I'm still pretty proud of the game and the work that went in it. Maybe I've just set my expectations accordingly now, or maybe something else. Either way, I'm working on the second game. If at first you don't succeed!
At this point, I'm pretty numb to rejection. I've been told no hundreds of times, and what that means is I'm no longer afraid to take risks, both in what I want to write and who I'll send it to. Or even how I'll approach the letter. Like if the worst that happens is they tell me to go away, then I'm not really out anything.
Edit: I came here to ask a question and got sidetracked :V Maybe tomorrow.