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Not Everything You Write Is a Home Run
The hard work is stepping up to the plate and swinging.
On June 29th, in a stadium built solely for the occasion, in a country where American baseball isn’t a readily grasped concept, New York Yankee Right Fielder Aaron Judge stepped up to the plate in the 4th inning and landed a two run home run against the Red Sox.
Despite the fact that I was in an upscale, nicely decorated establishment enjoying a Sunday Mimosa, I jumped up and screamed. It was pure magic. The next time he stepped up to the plate he struck out. I still love the kid.
I received a comment on a recent piece that threw me for a loop. Criticism is frequent and swift when you’re a writer. Someone once emailed me directly to tell me that I was pedestrian, self absorbed and not nice and that was why my marriages failed. Good to know. I was trying to figure out why that was…
This was different. The comment had a lot of praise and encouragement but noted that the reader, who had read much of my work, was disappointed in this piece. It wasn’t to the standard he can come to expect from me. Not by a long shot. My God, that hurt.
