Welcome to The Blogging A-Z Challenge April 2012! Some of the most popular posts here at The Shellshank Redemption are the Motivational Mondays. So, after consulting the tortoises, we decided to make April our Motivational Month! Please join us for this (almost!) daily dose of alphabetical inspiration. We hope you enjoy it!
* ONE OF THE THINGS I LEARNED THE HARD WAY WAS THAT IT DOESN’T PAY TO GET DISCOURAGED. KEEPING BUSY AND MAKING OPTIMISM A WAY OF LIFE CAN RESTORE YOUR FAITH IN YOURSELF. (Lucille Ball) *
If I had a dollar for every rejection letter I have ever gotten - and I’m just talking novels here, not even short stories or poems or essays, etc. - I would probably be richer than if I had actually sold any of those novels.
Yes, I know that sounds rather pessimistic but my point is that even with all that rejection and negativity, I am still writing. I am still imagining and creating and sending those words and those characters and those stories out into the universe. Sometimes they find a home and sometimes they don’t. But either way, I turn back to the page, I listen to a new character introduce herself, I watch a scene play out on my imagination’s movie screen.
If you don’t have faith in yourself, no one will. So go ahead and do it. Believe.
keeping busy keeps us from dwelling!
ReplyDeletei always have busy work, but dont always want to do it!
Good for you...I may get discouraged momentarily but I'm not one to stay down...you are so right; faith in yourself travels far! good post...
ReplyDeleteThe only way to guarantee failure is to give up. Great post for K!
ReplyDeleteTara - I think the trick is for the "busy work" to still have a point, like we're working toward one goal or another somehow. :)
ReplyDeleteTracy - we all get discouraged or down sometimes - believe me! - but the more we learn to pick ourselves up, the better our life will be.
Matthew - thanks! And thanks for stopping by. :)
Excellent advice! And I love the way you put yourself out there!
ReplyDeleteEmpty Nester - thanks so much! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat advice. You just have to keep doing what you do - staying excited about it is the key!
ReplyDeleteNick - Glad you could join us here at TSR. :)
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