Wylie tagged me for the recycled post meme. So I dipped back into my original blogspot blog and pulled this one from January. I hope you enjoy it! I’m also going to tag Amy, Kelly and Red for this meme. 
We had our RWA chapter meeting today, and I have to say it was wonderful. One of our members gave an excellent talk on how to over come self defeating behaviours and attitudes. Now, I’ve been known on occasion to have some negative self talk and start to wonder what the hell I’m doing try to get myself published. Thankfully, I have a very supportive husband who keeps me going on those days.
Writing is not an easy career to break into. It’s hard, really hard. Anyone who has ever written or tried to write will attest to this. Though if you listen to some people anyone can write a book. Especially a romance novel. Silly people.
So why do it? Why go through all the heartache and headaches trying to get published? Personally, it’s because I have stories that I want to tell. Some of these have been bouncing around my head for a long time. Others pop out of nowhere. Every writer writes for different reasons. The key is to have the courage to ignore the negative self talk, ignore the doubt, and try to look on the positive side of rejection.
The most important thing I took away from the talk was to stop comparing myself to other authors and writers. I work different from others. I have different commitments, different abilities, and different stresses. The key is learning how to deal with them. Learn my limitations and then learn how to work around them.
I also need to learn patient! I’m a terribly impatient person and I need to learn to deal with waiting in a much more productive manner.
Thanks to Anne for a wonderful talk today!
Good advice, Christine, and for me, it came at the perfect time.
Who are you tagging?
I fixed the tag…Amy, Red, and Kelly are it!
Thanks for that post, Christine. You’re absolutely right (write)!
I’m it, I’m it, I’m IT!
Oh Lordy, here I go to have to THINK now, dang it. LOL!! I’ll do this today, sweetie. And this is great advice, by the way, makes me want to do a copy-paste. Ha!
Great post - recycling is good even in cyberspace. That spoke to me very strongly. Our biggest job as writers is to keep our spirits up. The craft elements can’t bloom if the soil is depleted.
That was a great session. I got a lot out of it.
So glad you found something useful in my session. I enjoyed doing it.
That is a great post! An excellent one to recycle. Lots of wisdom about keeping perspective and sanity on this often-tough writing path.
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