People will say you are selfish, because you want to stay in and work on your novel. People will ask what is the point as you don't have a good chance of being published.
People will ask who do you think you are to believe in yourself and call yourself creative.
People will point out all the people who came before you and are still not published.
People will assume your novel is not good enough. People will assume you aren't smart, or creative enough.
People will call your writing a silly hobby. People will assume this is just a passing phase. People will tell you ad nauseum not to quit your day job even while you never mentioned quitting your day job.
People will assume that they are so interesting that you will want to somehow add a caricature of their likeness to your novel.
And that is what they will say to your face, behind your back the comments and gossip will be a lot nastier.
It is up to all of us who have a gift for story telling to hold fast to the belief to concentrate and focus on what feels right. Writing just feels right for me.
So for all the nay-sayers all the do gooders and all the non believers. I will be here tapping away on my keyboard. Because I believe in me.
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