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July 20, 2005
Column’s Up
My first column was published today. (Check it out at http://www.theswordreview.com/columns.php?sub_id=54)
I’m excited but I’m also a nervous wreck waiting to see what people think.
It’s a good thing I had to work all day because if I had been home I would have spent the day constantly checking for responses.
I really have to stop obsessing so much about what other people think. It’s just not healthy.
Do all writers do this, I wonder, worry about whether or not their work is well-received, throw their work out into the world and anxiously wait to see what sound comes back?
A friend sent me this additional quote about failure:
Quote:
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled; nor where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt
I really like this quote. It reminds me that succeed or fail, it’s the people who are in the ring, striving day after day, that are the real heroes.
Posted by Selena at July 20, 2005 08:51 PM