Don't take it too seriously.
The last piece of advice from Barbara Samuel's blog post on reclaiming the joy of writing seems to counter the it's-a-difficult-and-huge-task-this-writing-business-and-you-gotta-take-it-seriously-or-else-you'd-never-succeed vibe about getting published and read.
Yet we've all known people (ourselves?) who take themselves and their jobs/passions so seriously that we feel as if life itself is being sucked away.
I am serious about writing. I know about hard work and perseverance. What I need is exactly this advice, so that in the midst of the teeth-grtting sessions of revisions, or hair-pulling moments of not getting the emotion just right, I can breathe and remember that there is more to life than just my writing.
(Please don't tell me that if I think there is more to life than writing, then writing must not be that important to me and therefore I should just get out and do something else and leave writing to those who either write or die. Please. )
I wish you: silly faces.
[Winner of the Silly Face Contest by Linda Hartman at Creative Commons]
4 comments:
Holy guacamole, what is that thing?!
I think that some writers might have to take their writing life seriously, but they probably aren't writing the kinds of books I want to write. Thank you for the silly face, encouragement, and grin for the morning! ~Cheryl
I think it might be a horse, but it makes me laugh every time I look at it.
Thank you so much for these last two posts. I needed something like this today, my son has the flu as well :( , and I got a completely random crit on my YA that has me spinning and ready to give up.
Silly faces to you too!! ;P
Sorry about the flu and the random crits...Put it away. Come back later, if at all.
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