Today is
a great day for a checkup.
How did
you do on those January goals?
Are your
creative resolutions for 2013 still on track?
If not –
no worries.
It’s a
new day!
It’s a
new month!
So, set
a few goals for February.
And if
you need a bit of inspiration to get you back on track, here are a couple of
stories that should do the trick –
The
first one comes straight from Katherine Applegate, this year’s Newbery Medal
Winner (for her book, The One and Only
Ivan).
In a Publishers Weekly interview, she discusses how tough it was to get that book
written and finally published. Then
she mentions how she recently ran across a scrap of paper containing words she had
scratched out years ago. The words were – “Should I give up on Ivan or not?”
Hmmm… I
think we all know the answer to that one. You can check out the entire article here.
And then
there’s this YouTube bit. If you've got a story that’s in need of a hero – THIS
is what a hero looks like.
“Never
give up,
for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
PROMPT: Get back on that pony and get ready
to ride! YeeHAW!
I love that story about Katherine Applegate. It can be so hard to keep going when we hit a rough spot, but it's so important! Thanks Barb!
ReplyDeleteShe's quite an inspiration! I know that I need to give myself the "press on" lecture roughly every other week. It's always great to look up and see that there are actually others in the same boat (waiting for that tide to turn)! Write and collage on, Kjersten!
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