Failing to Succeed

P.G. Barnett
4 min readApr 12, 2019
Photo by Ian Kim on Unsplash

Make no mistake about it. Writing is hard, sometimes impossibly hard, shit.

It doesn’t matter whether we’re writing to make a living, writing for the fun of it, or writing because we can’t just not write.

It’s still hard.

There will be times when our stories reek like three day old fish at the bottom of a waste bin. Everyone will steer clear of what we’ve written, pinching their…

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P.G. Barnett

A published author enjoying married Texas bliss. Dog person living with cats. A writer of Henry James' stories. Featured In MuckRack. Top Writer In Fiction.