I got the email that I've been waiting, since I mailed assignment three to my writing mentor last week, yesterday. The one that tells me it made it safely and is being forwarded to my writing mentor. I always feel a bit tense until I know it didn't get lost in the mail.
I've also been thinking about how I feel, when I see friends I've gotten to know on TNBW get their novels published. I'm happy to say I don't feel any jealousy. I feel proud to have gotten to know these people before they had their publishing successes. Then I start thinking about myself and what I've been doing with my writing. I could get mad at myself for allowing so much time to slip away from me. But I won't! I'm going to use my firends successes to motivate me to work harder. To light a larger fire under myself to achieve my own success.
I must admit there's a small part of me that still worries if I'm good enough. If I have what it takes to do what these friends did. But don't worry, I won't allow those feelings to hold me down. In fact I will use them as fuel to keep the fire inside me going, since who better to prove something to then yourself. And I have always been a fighter and to me this is the biggest fight of my life. To prove to myself that I can write a novel worthy of being published.
So I'm going to thank my friends who keep encouraging me to write. You fuel my spirit and I will always love you all for that!
I've also been thinking about how I feel, when I see friends I've gotten to know on TNBW get their novels published. I'm happy to say I don't feel any jealousy. I feel proud to have gotten to know these people before they had their publishing successes. Then I start thinking about myself and what I've been doing with my writing. I could get mad at myself for allowing so much time to slip away from me. But I won't! I'm going to use my firends successes to motivate me to work harder. To light a larger fire under myself to achieve my own success.
I must admit there's a small part of me that still worries if I'm good enough. If I have what it takes to do what these friends did. But don't worry, I won't allow those feelings to hold me down. In fact I will use them as fuel to keep the fire inside me going, since who better to prove something to then yourself. And I have always been a fighter and to me this is the biggest fight of my life. To prove to myself that I can write a novel worthy of being published.
So I'm going to thank my friends who keep encouraging me to write. You fuel my spirit and I will always love you all for that!