
This week, I cheered as a team of four U.S. astronauts launched into space aboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule for a journey to the International Space Station for the first time since 2011.
This journey came after years of intense preparation and research and included an unusual companion: a Baby Yoda doll. (I’m a huge Mandalorian fan, so my ears perked up at this bit.)
Why the doll? It was a lighthearted way to tell when they had achieved Zero G. It was a marker of success along the way. Zero G is achieved before you reach the Space Station and the mission is “complete.”
I think this illustrated something we can forget as writers. We need markers of success along our writing journey.
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