On January 1, you're all charged up. January 10-15 and you're down in the dumps. About writing. About blogging. About marketing and selling books. In February, it's likely to be the same, and on...and on.
Does that cycle sound familiar to you? Are you not in that group? What is your secret? I'd like to know, 'cause I don't feel it all the time. Questioning or doubting if anyone is out there reading...that happens a lot. "Is anybody there? Does anybody care?" Did you hear that song in the movie 1776? Those feelings spilled out in a letter from George Washington at Valley Forge to the Founding Fathers meeting in a hot Philadelphia room. General Washington's messenger sang the letter. Not easy to be the bearer of discouraging news.
Those at Valley Forge and in Philadelphia in 1776 were establishing a new government, to become the most outstanding in the world. We're not doing that. But we're doing something. What is it? What are we doing? Why? Want a clear view of your mission now? Get started, and God bless you. All of us need to establish and review why we are writing, the mission that drives us, in its overview and its specific parts.
Yes, we want others to care. We don't write to put our thoughts in a closet or a pail dropped down a well. The main thing always is, however, how much do we care about our mission, what it is, and how we're working to push it forward.
In Inbox later this evening, today's January 10, 2011 post by Roy Lessin, Meet Me in the Meadow.
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