This is post #97--A Great Quote from Isaac Asimov

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

 

Oh, that is so, so true. My persistence over nearly sixteen years has yielded a dozen published stories. I could have given up a long time ago, but I haven't yet, and I don't think I ever will.