Saturday, December 10, 2011

If you are a writer, you'll need this

You might need it today.
Maybe tomorrow.
Certainly sometime in the coming year.

Print it out.
Put it in a place you can find it.

Here's the link.

13 comments:

Wendy said...

I saw this last night when he posted it to Twitter. FANTASTIC! I'm glad you're getting it out there.

Yvonne Osborne said...

Thanks. I've been feeling pretty small.

Ali Trotta said...

I read that last night, and it made me all teary. Sean is right, and wise, and I retweeted it. Because, like you said, as a writer -- some days, you so need to read just that. I needed to read it last night, that's for sure. Thanks for sharing it, Janet.

Kathryn Elliott said...

Perfect.

Stephanie said...

I needed this so much. I just signed with an agent and am in the middle of rewrites, feeling very small. Thank you. Now I will be like Piglet. I might tremble at the task in front of me, but I'll do it anyway!

Keisha Martin Romance Writer said...

take a deep breath and realize that you've stepped out of every fearful moment a writer endures and stepped into the knowledge that you did that Noble Thing.


This is my new mantra that Sean wrote I needed this, to affirm as writers/authors we all endure these moments even writers like myself unagented/nor published we are all connected by these experiences.

Elspeth Futcher said...

Thank you. The next time I am feeling small, I shall try to remember I'm attempting a Noble Thing.

Carolynnwith2Ns said...

Amen

Dr. Cheryl Carvajal said...

So glad you posted the link to this. I'm sending it on to a few of my fellow writers. I've tried encouraging them lately, but this should help them (and me) far more!

Sometimes it's hard to stay hopeful about one's writing, especially during the first drafting of something. I just went through this with my novel for NaNoWriMo, for I realized about halfway through that it had huge holes and some other significant problems. But I kept going, incessantly reminding my left brain that it could put its oar in AFTER I finished the draft (and not until then).

Thanks for this!

Fiona Paul said...

As someone who feels small quite frequently, I loved this post.

I would also recommend (not sure of the netiquette of posting links to other blogs in a blog comment so I understand if my comment isn't posted) this unusually warm and fuzzy post by The Rejectionist.

http://www.therejectionist.com/2011/06/todays-exercise-in-self-soothing.html

It's another one worth bookmarking to pull out during those dark times. Bonus: it will also make you laugh.

JS said...

You'll need this: maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life.

ryan field said...

Excellent.

Unknown said...

Beautiful. Just found this, years later, and it's perfect. Thanks.