Hideous , as in having something like a 99 % rejection rate for fiction writers . With those kinds of odds , I ' m much better off at a craps table in Vegas . Still , I was foolhardy enough - and , like most writers , unreasonably optimistic - to think that I might creep into that glorious one percent .
According to the above context, answer the following question.
Why is the narrator so pessimistic at the moment ?


Their writing is unlikely to get accepted .