I came across an encouraging obituary.

The late Billy Milton starred in some twenty-five feature films. He died in 1989 at the age of 84. Billy was also a song-writer. The writer of the obituary said his song writing was “impressive” since he wrote 500 songs. I took encouragement from the description the writer of the obituary gave to his song writing. Even if 85 per-cent of my writing doesn’t get published it is still a body of work that I can be proud.