Based on the context and the answer, generate a question. 

Context: 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 .

Answer:

Many writers get rejected .



Why is the narrator so pessimistic at the moment ?