What If You Quit?
The question the Insecure Writing Group has for the first Wednesday of June is:
Did you ever say “I quit”? If so, what happened to make you come back to writing?
Did I ever quit writing? Yes for about fifteen minutes. Long enough to grab a cup of coffee and come to my senses. Truly, I can't quit writing, that's who I am.
It's tough especially when the rejections come or the sales aren't there. But I don't know who I'd be if I didn't write. On my writing journey I've discovered so many authors who have held out a hand and helped me. That's the crazy thing of this business, all the support we give one another. In a business made of hopes and dreams, support is a fantastic thing and with all of it around you - how could you quit?
Along for the ride at the grocery store - what if?
Scrubbing a bathroom - what if?A story begins with
what if
and then it's a lot of perspiration to find out how it all ends. I know life gets in the way; kids and parents, jobs, all it. I've found that you can make those day to day obstacles work for you in the inspiration department. There's ideas even in a store. The other day I was following a parent on her grocery expedition and while she shopped I thought what if this, or that or the other thing happened - what a story that would make. That same what if comes up when I'm in the middle of cleaning a bathroom or two. Of course that's when I use the dullness of the task to fill in the blanks as there isn't much inspiration in the back half of a toilet.
What if?Actually, this time, while I was spraying and scrubbing I was thinking of that book on serial killers and how all that information is going to come in really handy for a future book. What it will be about - well serial killers for sure.
More importantly, there's the readers. Whether you have one reader, a hundred or thousands - it only takes one. There's nothing better than knowing that someone read your story and liked it, maybe even forgot how tough real life can be - at least for a time.
Quit writing?
In the words of one of my favourite authors, Stephen King:
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
I don't know how true that quote is but I do know that if you quit, you'll never succeed as a writer.
So I write - stopping only to ask the occasional "what if?"
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Did you ever say “I quit”? If so, what happened to make you come back to writing?
Did I ever quit writing? Yes for about fifteen minutes. Long enough to grab a cup of coffee and come to my senses. Truly, I can't quit writing, that's who I am.
It's tough especially when the rejections come or the sales aren't there. But I don't know who I'd be if I didn't write. On my writing journey I've discovered so many authors who have held out a hand and helped me. That's the crazy thing of this business, all the support we give one another. In a business made of hopes and dreams, support is a fantastic thing and with all of it around you - how could you quit? 
Along for the ride at the grocery store - what if?
Scrubbing a bathroom - what if?A story begins with
what if
and then it's a lot of perspiration to find out how it all ends. I know life gets in the way; kids and parents, jobs, all it. I've found that you can make those day to day obstacles work for you in the inspiration department. There's ideas even in a store. The other day I was following a parent on her grocery expedition and while she shopped I thought what if this, or that or the other thing happened - what a story that would make. That same what if comes up when I'm in the middle of cleaning a bathroom or two. Of course that's when I use the dullness of the task to fill in the blanks as there isn't much inspiration in the back half of a toilet. 
What if?Actually, this time, while I was spraying and scrubbing I was thinking of that book on serial killers and how all that information is going to come in really handy for a future book. What it will be about - well serial killers for sure.More importantly, there's the readers. Whether you have one reader, a hundred or thousands - it only takes one. There's nothing better than knowing that someone read your story and liked it, maybe even forgot how tough real life can be - at least for a time.
Quit writing?
In the words of one of my favourite authors, Stephen King:
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
I don't know how true that quote is but I do know that if you quit, you'll never succeed as a writer.
So I write - stopping only to ask the occasional "what if?"
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Ryshia
www.ryshiakennie.com
http://ryshiakennie.com
https://twitter.com/#!/ryshiakennie
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