Have you ever made a plan and while working things out, you keep stumbling upon new bumps in the road, each one higher than the one before? Up to the point where getting over the bump, which is starting to look more like a hill, needs a plan for itself. Which makes you want to give up?
These things keep happening to me. For example: I was looking for a publisher. One who will publish my book in English and most around here work in Dutch. Finding that is probably ever harder than writing the whole book. So I finally found a publisher, based in Holland who will publish my book, not only in English but, wait for it… publish it in America, and on Amazon in all English speaking countries and Japan, China, Spain, Italy, Germany,... I was over the moon. So I looked for some information and some people who had experiences with them. Pff, instead of stopping on the moon, I went over it and came rushing back to earth. Bad experiences, people who didn’t get what they expected and for most people a disappointment. So back at square one: Finding a publisher. Now, I can do two things: 1. Give up and just leave my book on the hard drive of my computer for the next 20 years. Where I will occasionally get reminded that I wrote the story, so I will read it but won’t do anything else with it. Basically, let it collect ‘dust’. 2. Keep going, stay positive. Find a publisher and do what I wanted to do with my book from the day I started writing it: show it to others. I know what I will do. I’m not even going to think about choosing option 1. I have so many files on my computer and laptop which I eventually stopped opening because after a while, reading it got boring. I will never delete it, but I won’t do anything with them either. I started this with one goal: Get it published. So I’m going to stick to my goal. No matter what your goal is, you always have those same options. 1. Give up. 2. Keep going. Going back to square one to start over again is always disappointing. It will always give you a feeling of hesitation to if you should keep going or give up. My advice to you (and myself) is keep going. The bigger the challenge, the bigger the reward. You will feel so much better about your project or goal when you’re finished and you had to overcome so many obstacles. Keep focusing on your goal and all the progress you have made, even if it’s hard to see at this point. Keep in mind where you started, that will make it clearer to see how much progress you've made. Never give up. No matter how high that bump you have to get over is. You can get over it. What are some of the bumps or hills you had to get over? How did you get over it? Please share your experiences and thoughts in the comments.
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AuthorMy passion is writing. I started writing stories when I was only 6 years old and I still do it today. Blogging is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, so here we are. Archives
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