The trouble with looking at successful people for inspiration is they are surrounded by an awful lot of mythology. You can pick someone like Raymond Chandler and be wowed by his writing, but what we miss out is that his first novel was published when he was 50-years-old. That’s a lot of practice and hard work, a lot of failing before he succeeded.

I’m editing my novel at the moment and came up with a thought that people on twitter seemed to like:

https://twitter.com/seancameronUK/status/458810890062553088

Now that I think about it, success stories leave out the holes as well. And maybe they shouldn’t. Maybe knowing that our heroes are silly humans that fall from time-to-time would inspire us all a little bit more.

Here’s a video that inspired this blog post:

And here’s part 2