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First, I want to let everyone know that my e-mail is up and running again. I hadn't logged in in 30 days, and Hotmail wiped my account clean. I encourage anyone who enjoyed corresponding with me in the past to get in touch again.
Why haven't I logged on to my e-mail in over a month? Well, it's that priority thing once again.
One of the most asked questions I get from you readers is some form of "Why do you think you haven't made it yet?" The answer is simple - because I put more time and dedication into everything else I do than I do for my writing. I'm a results-oriented person. Nothing bothers me more than putting time, energy and effort into something that produces no results. So, every time I find something that rewards me in some way (paycheck, finished product, Scooby Snak, Nobel Peace Prize) I funnel all my energy into that. Given the choice, would I rather spend the day calling agents or spend the day doing a pile of laundry? Obviously, I'd rather call agents. But, a day calling agents usually results in no results except a lost day. A day doing laundry results in a pile of clean laundry. It's just how my brain works.
If you're going to make writing the focus of your life, you need to find satisfaction in the writing itself. I LOVE reading what I wrote, and I do have thousands of written pages that qualify as a result for my hard work. But, when it comes to "making it", those efforts are a total all-or-nothing scenario. Not my strong point.
So... Lately, I have found something else that has produced results. You can only imagine how readily I soaked that up. And, boy, what a convenient excuse for not pursuing my writing dreams.
I share this information so that some of you realize where I went wrong and maybe you can go right. It's easy to feed people the standard "Believe in yourself" steam-load, but it's tough to tell people why they should. I'll tell you why: Because you don't want to end up like all those douchebags you went to high school with. Or, worse yet - you don't want to end up like your parents.
Now, get out there and be somebody. |
