The Importance of Focusing on the Process

In a lot of different fields, you will often know whether you have something special early on. The difficult thing is one is almost certainly not going to get anywhere in less than 10 years of commitment. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Dumar, Shakespeare, Tolkien, Joyce all paid a price and made a sacrifice. Readers don't see the pain, but if we are moved by the art, we feel it.