I enjoy golfing, too. Jason, my oldest son, and I played over at State about three weeks ago. That new course is nice. Regardless of the level of success he achieves as a writer, Watson plans to continue teaching. Although it's difficult to quantify, he is a firm believer in the symbiotic relationship between writing and the teaching of it.
Writing is such a private act.
Not just about enduring all the years of rejection, but about developing healthy attitudes toward the work ethic in writing. It has to be something you do every day in your life, a part of your life, and not something you treat as an occasional activity. Talking to students about that sort of thing and looking at their work helps me to keep a workaday attitude myself. I feel good, now that this book is out, about being able to go into class and encourage those writers and tell them that everything they're going through is normal and that all their doubts are normal. If they're talented, it's possible for them to get to where they want to be if they'll work at it.