Get on the Write Mentor-ship

There is no competition in Writing.

Writers are generous. Writers possess empathy. Writers are professional communicators.

There is no competition among writers.  

The most successful people are held up by their mentors, not their inspiration or muse or any invisible character, a mentor is a real human who has already had success in their profession because they had a mentor to hold them up, and they also felt indebted to their own mentor(s).

Did you want examples? Look at the best-seller list, then look seven degrees to the write.

Writers are not competitive towards other writers, other writers writer other things.

Writers are the products of all the words they have read, starting with the alphabet multiplied by experience equals a life sentence in language. This is a blessing, a challenge to the writer, to make the sentence fit the crime.

Writers make sense of things that make the most sense to them, to some this is nonsense, to the writer it is common sense.

Writers are not competitive because their closest literati linguist competitors are all dead, or classically outdated, meaning they are not publishing new work.

Writers are hermits that desperately want stroking. Writers are sensitive to light and laughter. Writers have a special touch, often able to thaw cryogenic hearts, able bend stained steel wills and lift the eyes of millions of humans in one small package of prose.

Writers are proud of other writers writing other things that meet great success. Writers are most proud of their other successes.

Successful writers are to be heard and not seen. Successful writers do not overshadow their work, the work is allowed to step out of the shadows leaving the writer in the dark and considers themselves an on-call chauffeur. The work will guide the way through the labyrinth, the writer invents the wheel to keep things rolling and pays for fuel.

All writers are successful if they are writing what they want and it is good. All good writers are not as successful as they want.

Writers are not competitive with other writers, they are writing their own stories, win or lose, breaking rules and keeping their “I”’s on the ISBN.

Writers writing are not competitive careerists, they are too busy writing their way past the competition.

All writers are winners at the end of the human race. They make up the ends, they make up the beginnings, they make up what they do with their time, they make up time most of the time. All Writers are chasing time and have no time for silly competition.

All writers are somewhat silly ( anice word-don't you think?), at least they think they are. This is why they talk to themselves and call it work.  Silliness. Writers even write about writing.

Writers take their work very seriously and writers learn to leave their work lightly.

Some writers are righting wrongs, often the wrong writers are writing the right things, but the righters are writing it all wrong, and writers know the difference between write from rite. Although everything writers write may not be always right. Writers do not fight (with other writers), it gets too touche. 

Writers write and do not compete with other writers struggling to write their own way.

Writers are running their own race at their own pace. Each writer to his or her own creative case not trying to reach the finish line, but save face and conserve stamina while simultaneously surpassing others.

Writers are inspired by other writers dazzling capabilities of combined speed and efficiency. Output is income. Is this competition?

Writers only compete for dazzling. Come-in, I put-out, this cover says. There are shelves for that. Romance and Fantasy both pulped from the same tree. See, there is no write way to say you may not be the right one for all but you can confidently know that you are always write for one. 

There is no competition like there is in writing.

(Our Literary Journal would like to 'thank you for your submission'. We appreciate the opportunity to discuss our writing further without competition for your time and although we did not have the time to read your submission personally, we are certain it is not as good as the ones we did read, namely, the ones we were familiar with. Please keep in mind that this Journal is not for profit, subsequently, we make no profit off of other peoples' poetry or prose like all the other Literary Journals. 

FYI: This years' competition was tough! There were a whopping total of 11 electronic submissions which were then filtered by our diligent Copy-editor, to make certain it reads like everyone else-copied and bland, or non-offensive and that we liked which left 3 to choose from, not including your own! Please continue to submit to next year's contest, we really need the submission fees to keep reading others work and giving them your money. Thanks for your on-going support in the Arts of Rejection.)


Painting by Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885) in [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.