#3 Celebrate Your Successes, Face Your Failures Learn as much from your successes as you do from your failures             I wrote my first novel when I was 24 years old and while a prosecutor working sex crimes and child abuse. I didn’t have an agent. A small press that has since gone out of business published the novel. While I did not sell many books, I was invited to speak on panels and did book signings. I got an agent. I was on my way. I was going to be a writing success story.             Then my agent unexpectedly passed away. Opportunities continued to arise, at least for a short time. Another small press wanted to publish a book of mine, however the novel was never released.             At this time, I’m 29 years old and feeling like my writing career would never go anywhere. I was a writing failu......

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