Writing Tip: Insidious Pressure to be Successful

My only writing tip is simultaneously a no-brainer and unrealistic: Write the thing you find most interesting. Maybe your thing is short stories but you’ve been told they don’t sell and you won’t be able to get an agent; or you have a prospective agent who’ll take you on if you pinky-swear to write a novel next. Eff that! Double down on those stories. Maybe you notice how poems that sound like Jeramy Dodds or Ken Babstock or Sina Queyras are hoovering the attention and winning the awards, but you really dig a quiet, plain-spoken poem. Make yours majestically quiet. The pressure to be successful, however it’s measured—publication, critical reception, reputation, contests—is real, is insidious, and is coming for you. Be stubborn. Work hard. Stay golden.”

By:Matthew Tierney

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