As a Producer for most of my career, I’ve often gone into casting sessions and wondered why anyone would want to be an actor. To stand in front of a group of people – half of them checking emails, surfing the web, taking phone calls – and audition for a part that 99% won’t get.

It’s passion. Yeah, some are chasing fame, but most just love what they do and dream of making a living at it. 

The same is true of writers. There’s a creative itch to be scratched. A need to be met. You soar on the good days, are convinced you should hang it all up on the bad days. The only people who really understand why you do it is other writers. 

And yet, you keep writing. Editing. Critiquing. And more writing.

You finally finish (yay, you!) and enter the pitching process, or query process as we call it. A daily head bashing of the most sadistic sort. The whoosh sound of an email leaving your inbox might as well be the sound of a toilet flush. 

And you keep writing. 

So here’s to my fellow query warriors. Those who put thousands of hours of blood, sweat, tears and, yes, passion into their work and keep doing it, despite the possibility of rejection.  One day there won’t be. And that’s what we live for.

I see you.  Keep writing.