‘IF’ FOR WRITERS
If you can use your Mac when all about you
Is Starbucks’ noise and din;
If you can get it on the page,
Then you’re on your way to win;
A first draft, then a second,
And edit as you go,
With no adverbs, ‘ands’ or ‘buts’,
Just let the phrasing flow;
If you can visualise-and not be too distracted;
If you can make the plot arc strong,
No editorial triumph nor disaster
With sentence, short or long;
If you can read a bad review,
And not cry nor sob nor weep,
Then throw it in the bin;
For sure, you’ve earned your sleep;
If you can take rejection slips
And make a pile a mountain high;
Then start again on query letters,
With not a single, doleful sigh;
If you can read your novels’ rankings
And accept them, high or low
With a massive pinch of…
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