Motivational Monday

If you focus first on craft and community,

you'll not only have a much better chance 

of writing something other people want to read, 

but you'll be part of a group of writers

who have made that journey with you.

And that, in and of itself, 

bestows the most sustaining gift of all:

empathy, understanding, connection, 

deep debates, camaraderie.

Not to mention 

someone to talk you off the ledge 

during those long dark nights of the soul, 

when you're positive that no one 

will ever want to read what you've written,

and are toying with giving up writing 

and becoming an interpretive dancer instead. 

(Lisa Cron)

This is exactly how I feel about all of you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Let's continue to support each other and to keep talking each other off those ledges, because, believe me, no one wants to see me dance, interpretive or otherwise.