Nadia Halstrom
24 Dec 2025
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Fourteen months without a booking. Still working, still in class, still submitting. Just tired.
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How do you keep going in a long quiet stretch?
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Anneke Vos
24 Dec 2025
Change what you are measuring. Bookings are not in your control and measuring yourself against them in a quiet stretch is a way to feel like a failure for a year.
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Miles Petrakis
1 Feb 2026
Make something. Anything, badly. The passivity is what grinds you down more than the silence.
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Paul Etherington
3 Feb 2026
Fourteen months is long and it is also not unusual, which is a horrible pair of facts.
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Sandrine Okafor
4 Feb 2026
The people I know who came out the other side all had one thing that was theirs and not dependent on being chosen. Writing, teaching, a company, a podcast.
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Reeva Bhandari
7 Feb 2026
Mine was twenty-two months. It broke and it broke suddenly, which is how it usually goes.
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Marguerite Sowande
8 Feb 2026
Be careful about who you spend the quiet stretch with. Other people's panic is extremely contagious.
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