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Why I Didn’t Write Yesterday
Every morning, I wake up around 6 am, make myself a cup of coffee, and sit down at my desk to write. The first thing I open on my computer is Medium, and I’d be lying if I said I don’t have the Pavlovian response of sheer excitement at the sight of those green notifications. Did I get a story accepted into a big publication? Did one of my stories take off? Could this be the story that changes my life and makes me a ‘legit creator’?
Well, a couple of days ago, those green dots weren’t so kind to me. For all the work I had put into crafting a story that captured all the inner demons I’ve been fighting over the last few years, it got rejected by one of the major publications. And these guys tend to like my work. I’ve been published by them multiple times.
I had spent a lot of time preparing this story. I actually wrote the draft about a month ago but didn’t publish it because the story contains a few ‘characters’ who I wanted to bring to life visually- and I didn’t have the time (or the guts) to actually get in front of the camera and make it happen. And then I finally did.
And nobody gave a shit.
