Words on a page

Writer Mike Baron (who co-created my all-time favourite comic Nexus) wrote this about persevering as a writer:

In spring of my senior year, I decided to write a paperback novel and make some fast bucks. Thirty years later, I succeeded in publishing my first novel, WITCHBLADE: DEMONS, based on Top Cow’s comic. Think about that. Between the time I decided to become a novelist, and got my first novel published, three decades. This doesn’t mean the intervening thirty years were a wash. Far from it.  But it does attest to both my determination, and the abysmal quality of my writing. I must have written thirty novels over the years, or one a year. When I look back on that material, I want to crawl into a hole and curl up like a carpet worm.