Have you ever had those days when you’re so unmotivated to write that you’d rather vacuum the rug? When you think of giving up on ‘building’ a writing career? Me too.
This usually happens to me when I’m faced with another revision or starting a new piece of writing or receiving another rejection slip.
Keeping on task and moving forward isn’t easy.
Well, serendipity struck and I came across a fabulous article from Your Writer Platform. After I read the tips I thought of each one as a brick in the process of writing and in the steps to a writing career. (Pun intended).
I’ve added two more tips to their fine suggestions.
Tip #40: Relax: Chill out, it’s not the end of the world. So what you take a brief break from writing.
Tip #41: Dream. Novels are made of this stuff.
Dream
I hope you enjoy the Your Writer Platform blog post. And keep writing, even if it’s in your head.
Have you ever had months or weeks when you just want to throw up your hands and give up? One of those weeks when not much made sense, you asked ‘why?’ and the gloomy clouds outside matched your mood?
Yeah, I had a month of those weeks in my writing life.
But a great thing happened in the midst of the dark. I didn’t have a meltdown because other people’s posts and words (which I stumbled upon) lifted me above the clouds; especially this week.
I want to share these words and say thank you to the writers/bloggers who I came across in the past seven days:
“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” Anne Lamott
A revolutionary patience. I loved hearing hope described in that way.
“misery shared is misery halved, and joy shared is joy doubled.”
At Publishing Crawl, author Stacie Lee and Stephanie Garber gave encouragement with their post, Moving Beyond Rejection. My misery halved.
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