What a hell of a day so far.
I never even got a chance to write one thing, except this.
This is one of those moments where your car drives close to the edge of the cliff, and you have to wrestle the steering wheel to get the damn thing back on the road. Otherwise, what happens?
The day is hell. You don't get a chance to write. I will do it tomorrow. Six months later, you come back feeling guilty. We get these moments thrown at us, at random and on Mondays, and these moments become tests which we can pass or fail.
Fail and you are not a writer. Pass and your life gets more hectic and jam packed.
The hardest part of being a writer is staying a writer.
Resilience is not easy. I like to think anything shall bounce off my armor, but the reality is my armor is not iron-clad three-foot thick steel. My armor is the ability to be flexible and adapt. To move blocks of time around and make time later. To remember to do something and do it in place of the thing I normally do at another time. It is to shift and to make due.
To do something else later. To make time for writing when I can. And then do it when I have that moment. Even if it something small and insignificant, such as this. But recognize that the moments that you think you are too slammed and busy to care about writing are actually the greatest threats to your dreams. The most insignificant delay can spell doom for your hopes and aspirations. A small moment of failure can cascade into six months of nothing.
Failure does not take much to set off.
Defeat is a very tiny seed that grows into a giant gnarled and wicked tree. It is better to nip defeat in the bud while it is still germinating than it is to take a chainsaw to it later. Don't feel bad about it either, you are going to thank yourself for yanking that weed now all by yourself than you will having to hire someone to saw down that unwanted blight later.
Plus there is that stump to deal with, that is usually removed with a huge extra charge.
Don't be that person who lets defeat take root and grow.
Be the person who recognized there is a moment there where we cannot deal with something, yet be that person to get back to your dreams as soon as you can and get that hopeful energy back on track as fast as possible.
I never even got a chance to write one thing, except this.
This is one of those moments where your car drives close to the edge of the cliff, and you have to wrestle the steering wheel to get the damn thing back on the road. Otherwise, what happens?
The day is hell. You don't get a chance to write. I will do it tomorrow. Six months later, you come back feeling guilty. We get these moments thrown at us, at random and on Mondays, and these moments become tests which we can pass or fail.
Fail and you are not a writer. Pass and your life gets more hectic and jam packed.
The hardest part of being a writer is staying a writer.
Resilience is not easy. I like to think anything shall bounce off my armor, but the reality is my armor is not iron-clad three-foot thick steel. My armor is the ability to be flexible and adapt. To move blocks of time around and make time later. To remember to do something and do it in place of the thing I normally do at another time. It is to shift and to make due.
To do something else later. To make time for writing when I can. And then do it when I have that moment. Even if it something small and insignificant, such as this. But recognize that the moments that you think you are too slammed and busy to care about writing are actually the greatest threats to your dreams. The most insignificant delay can spell doom for your hopes and aspirations. A small moment of failure can cascade into six months of nothing.
Failure does not take much to set off.
Defeat is a very tiny seed that grows into a giant gnarled and wicked tree. It is better to nip defeat in the bud while it is still germinating than it is to take a chainsaw to it later. Don't feel bad about it either, you are going to thank yourself for yanking that weed now all by yourself than you will having to hire someone to saw down that unwanted blight later.
Plus there is that stump to deal with, that is usually removed with a huge extra charge.
Don't be that person who lets defeat take root and grow.
Be the person who recognized there is a moment there where we cannot deal with something, yet be that person to get back to your dreams as soon as you can and get that hopeful energy back on track as fast as possible.
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