Moin Uddin
I have faced lots of rejections in my life. My dreams have
been shattered. My efforts, my dedication, determination, devotion, my talents
all have been shattered.
Even I paid a huge sum for being multi talented, this world
is really unfair where your talents are just seen as a mere tool for the benefit
of others (who use you) and you get nothing in return except more work in odd hours
and no-money, no benefits for the task you do– Really unfair.
I wake up every morning making my mind and setting its tune
that I'll face another rejection in the day and with this, now I am used to it.
Recently I was again rejected. I wrote a novel book and it
was in English, I went to the publisher and they rejected without having a
single glance, saying we don't publish English novels.
Every book publisher that I met said me so, however I didn't
lose my hope, instead I translated it into Nepali.
It took me three months to do so, I revised a lot, still
there were loopholes –as one I would solve another would pop up, but I
continued, ask any person who write, it takes lots of time, lots of efforts,
you have to keep yourself motivated to write more that 30,000 words, and to
imagine to create a plot, and to make the story more interesting, and then to
write and revise, it takes a lots of time, if one doesn't have patience in this
endeavor s/he will stop and will never write fearing of the rejections and
criticism's .
Finally I completed and printed it and went in search of a publisher,
they said the new writer should invest his own money, they didn't checked the
content of my book, and they simply talked about the money.
This last Saturday again a well known publisher called me. It
took me eight months to meet him. He also rejected my Novel. In fact they termed
it as of Jhoor and gave me
suggestions, which I liked. From his talk I felt he wants me to improve as I
think he saw possibility in me to be a great writer.
So he was giving me a good advice, I took it positively.
However, there isn't any person who likes listening to the criticism from
others. Like others I too felt sad as I had devoted my time, money, efforts in
writing my first book.
I felt it was my first child that I am conceiving and losing
it before its even born one feels lots of twinge, similar is the feeling that I
am sensing.
However I pampered myself
by saying that, what I wrote was worth it, not content wise (I guess from the
sayings of that publisher), but from the eyes of discovering many techniques of
writing and on top of that, I met many personalities, in the meantime, it
wouldn't have been possible, if I hadn't wrote it.
So that's an achievement for me, I discovered many aspects of
my life and it taught me to face criticism and I know I'll improve it and I am
striving to be a wonderful writer.
This is how I pamper myself.
Let's stay motivated.
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