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How to explain ongoing creative failure to others

I have written four novels and none have been published and everyone keeps asking when my book is coming out and I do not know what to tell them anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The social expectation of creative progress creates shame when private artistic struggle becomes public speculation.

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