I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.
I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
I don't ever take a break. I'm always writing.
I have taken a break from the media spotlight for the past few years.
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.
For me, just being published feels like success.
Publishing is not my world.
With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.
I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.