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No one truly appreciates
all the work you do!
Why should you bother,
if no one believes in you?
We spend too much time
trying to get better!
What happens
if you try hard to get in the Times,
and still don't get accepted?
When you get in the Times,
many people still decide to make fun of your poem!
I guess I'll just give up,
and spend more time with my family,
away from Whyville and never write for the Times again.
Editor's Note: Courage, Andrea96! Authors don't make it in the Times unless they
deserve it -- but the only way they can get in again is to have the courage to
keep writing, keep submitting, and keep accepting that no writer can satisfy
everyone all the time, including themselves. We writers can only demand the best
of ourselves, and try to use what others say about our writings to make it even
better.
On a side note, anyone who gets *any* article or poem in the Times is very
very lucky. Whyvillians send in 200-300 articles every week, and the Times can only publish about 20 of those. Wow!
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