You just have to go on when it is worst and most helpless -there is only one thing to do with a novel [or anything important**] and that is go straight on through to the end of the damn thing.
Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald in a 1929 letter from France, courtesy the New York Times archive
#alonetogetherwiththelostgeneration
*Even though it says Straight On Through and not Break On Through, I wonder how many first thought of the Doors…
**IMO
Me! I’ll be singing that all day. It takes so little to trigger a song from my memory.
Same! Ear worm all day.
Hem’s right. Persistence doesn’t guarantee success, but you won’t succeed without it.
Truth, sir.
I confess, I immediately went there. And now, I cannot get the tune outa my head.
Yup. It’s still worming through my head…