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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”<\/p>Chinese proverb<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This post is part of the Insecure Writers Support Group monthly blog hop<\/a>, co-hosted this month by Erika Beebe,<\/a> Olga Godim,<\/a> Sandra Cox,<\/a> <\/strong>Sarah Foster<\/strong>,<\/a> and Chemist Ken<\/a><\/strong>. This month’s optional question is: What’s the one thing about your writing career you regret the most? Were you able to overcome it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I get to this month’s question, I want to share some exciting news with my IWSG friends (and anyone else who missed my announcement last week): I’ve published another short story!<\/strong> It’s a Christmas horror story, published in this year’s Deathlehem anthology, The Colour out of Deathlehem<\/a>. See the announcement at the top of my blog<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Now that the shameless self-promotion is out of the way, let’s get on to this month’s IWSG post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s the one thing I regret most about my writing career? That’s easy. I regret that I started my writing career so late. I’ve told the story before (in my very first IWSG post<\/a>) about how a high school English teacher assigned us to write a short story without teaching us anything about writing fiction and how I assumed from that experience that I had no talent. But I can’t blame that teacher for my illogical belief that one high school assignment should determine my fate as a writer. I majored in English. I could have put aside concerns about my GPA and taken a creative writing class as part of my degree program. I could have read some books about fiction writing when I was in my 20s and 30s and teaching myself other skills. I could have, could have, could have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I didn’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, I clung stubbornly to the idea that writers were born, not made, and I didn’t have the required talent. Reader, I clung to that idea for 30 years after the high school short story assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30 effing years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t start trying to write fiction till I was 47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t be me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have a dream, go for it, even if you think you can’t do it. Don’t let other people or a single bad experience deter your dreams. Try. Just try. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since time travel doesn’t exist outside of fiction (including some of my fiction), I have only 2 options: 1) decide it’s too late to build a writing career, I’m too old, so why bother, or 2) do it and make the most of the years I have left. Spoiler alert: I chose (and continue to choose) option 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some days the regret really gets to me. I could have 20 or 30 years of experience as a writer. I could have (maybe) built a writing career and even supported myself and my family as a writer. Every time I read about how lots of successful authors labored for 10 or 15 or 20 years before getting a novel published, the regret twists in my gut like a bad burrito. I’m 54 years old. I don’t have that kind of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then I come back to those 2 options. Give up or do it now. I think about how I’d feel if I gave up. Really think about it. Let myself feel the disappointment, the regret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I pick up my manuscript and get back to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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