Sometimes when I'm writing, I'm in the ZONE! The chapters are well outlined, I come up with ideas to make them even better, words flow, and my novel is zooming off my keyboard!
I become so optimistic! I'm sure that my terrific progress will continue on forever. I start fantasizing about getting my book done in 3 months --
and it will be AWESOME!
Then things start to happen. BAD things.
Some are just inescapable.
Some are pure laziness
or bad news that gets me down.
I return to work eventually,
but my SUPER productive streak has vanished,
and I've become Pokey-the-turtle.
Sometimes, a break is in order,
and I feel RECHARGED when I come back!
Then . . .
I become so optimistic! I'm sure that my terrific progress will continue on forever. I start fantasizing about getting my book done in 3 months --
and it will be AWESOME . . .
The strange life-cycle of the Eternal Optimist.
How about you? Would you consider yourself an optimist? A pessimist? Or a realist?
My kind and wonderful co-hosts of Celebrate the Small Things are:
L.G. Keltner @ Writing Off The Edge
Tonja Drecker @ Kidbits Blog
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Celebrate the Small Things. To be part of this blog hop, all you have to do is visit the Celebrate page on Lexa's Blog for the rules, and then post every Friday about something you're grateful for that week. It can be about writing or family or school or general life. This is the funnest and easiest blog hop ever! (Originated by VikLit)
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Foxy has been nosing around the net.
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