It has taken a lot of courage personally to return to writing. After my first attempt at trying to get published at 16 and getting torn apart by agents who were blatantly insulting, I had no confidence I would ever get published so gave up.
Now seven years later I'm back to writing, changing my whole career path and I think this has needed to happen. My fall back career was something in the travel industry but seeing as the recent pandemic has shut down the world that industry is collapsing. Whereas the book/publishing industry is kind of thriving in a way.
So this has left me to really re-evaluate my career path and just realise, I need to get published because somebody needs my book and my book could essentially change somebodies life when that time comes.
Even though the pandemic is kind of crap it's really let me put things into perspective in terms of my future career.