Courage!

 

As writers, we've got a lot of it. We need courage to take every single step of this writing process - from cutting a favourite sentence to letting someone else read our work, from finding a crit buddy to sending out a query letter, from getting that first form rejection to dealing with the rejection of a full.

We keep going. We keep learning. We keep growing.

Courage.

I came across this video the other day. Courage is one of the themes we're discussing in my classroom right now. This is a Nike commercial that fits the theme. It's all about pushing through, getting back up, and doing more than you think you possibly can.

It's about a minute long. It's worth watching just for the guy who shows up in the last 3 seconds or so.

(sorry - had to remove the video)

Right now I'm using up all my courage working through this rewrite. It's a slow process, but I really do think it's making the story stronger. I'm not giving up. I'm pushing on through.

What are using your courage for these days?

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(On a side note, more than a dozen comments from my last post got eaten when Blogger was down the other day. I can't seem to get them back up (or even find them) and of course, I deleted my emails. Thank you to those who commented and I'm sorry that I don't have the technical skills to recover the comments. I really hope THAT never happens again!)