When I started writing seriously,
I began with writing short stories.
I knew if I spent a year
working on a single novel
and then three years after that
trying to sell the novel,
my passion for being published
would die.
Writing short stories
allowed me
to achieve smaller successes sooner.
These successes fed my passion.
Dilbert creator
Scott Adams
shares
“Billionaires like to say
passion is the secret of success.
But what else could they say
without sounding like total jerks?
They can’t say
they are smarter than poor people.
They can’t say
they work harder than poor people.
They can’t say
they simply got lucky
because that would ruin their images.
So they say
passion is the key
because it sounds like
an appropriately modest answer.
In my many business ventures,
I was always excited at the start,
but when things turned bad,
my enthusiasm ebbed.
And when things went great,
I got increasingly excited.
So I think success causes passion
more than
passion causes success.”
Consider achieving smaller successes
to keep your passion alive.