Jeff Kaplan: belief

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…We should mention that you did give it a real try. You’ve mentioned receiving over 170 rejection letters in one year when submitting your stories. So there’s a lot of rejection. So it was a long chain of rejection. And then what was that like, the rejection? It was hard. I had moved from New York. I did the most terrible dumb thing that I knew I was doing at the time. I had a really great group of writer friends from grad school in New York, and I think writing is a very lonely, solitary thing. But weirdly, writers kind of support each other and just, “Who do you give the story to?” You know, you don’t wanna give it to your mom or dad, you know. You kinda wanna give it to somebody who’s gonna really punch you in the nose and tell you what’s wrong with it. And I had left that writing circle to move back to California. Did you take a bunch of drugs, take your typewriter and drove across, uh-…

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