Writer's Digest Presents: How To Define Success as a Writer (Podcast, Season 2, Episode 1)

In the season two premiere of the Writer's Digest presents podcast, the WD editors sit down to discuss how to define success as a writer.

(Writer's Digest Presents: 2022 Roundup (Podcast, Episode 10))

Editor-in-chief Amy Jones, Senior Editor Robert Lee Brewer, Managing Editor Moriah Richard, and Content Editor Michael Woodson share what success means to them as writers, how that definition has changed over the years, and how to set goals in order to achieve your definition of success.

From The Editors:

"I learned to separate the difference between the writing portion of success and the publishing portion of success. Those are two different things in my mind now."—Amy Jones
"It almost starts to turn into this existential thing after you hit that big goal you've been working toward. You start to think 'OK, I did that, but what do I really want to get out of writing, and what is success really?'"—Robert Lee Brewer
"The older I get, the more that I understand that goals and writing, both separate and together, are incredibly individual. So, for me, for my personal success, as long as I'm writing stories that make me happy and keep me engaged, I'm successful—whether or not anybody else sees them, whether or not I'm writing every day or consistently. As long as I'm happy doing what I'm doing, I feel successful."—Moriah Richard
"I recognize and am comfortable with the fact that that's just the nature of trying something creative—that sometimes you sit comfortably in the fact that it's in-progress and sometimes it makes you a little bit disappointed. But I think that comes back to this conversation of success and trying better to celebrate the smaller success that will eventually lead to the ultimate goal."—Michael Woodson