Year after year, knock-back after knock-back, he kept trying to convince reluctant journalists to run with his stories. These ideas are so bad, he must have thought, I can’t even pay someone to write about them. But instead of giving up, he changed tack. He commissioned himself. He set about writing the stories that nobody else wanted. Fully expect

The question is: Why are you creating? Why are you putting pen to paper and subjecting yourself to all the difficulties you will certainly face along the way? What is your motivation? Because the answers will determine how likely you are to be successful.