Today's Happiness Quota: High - wrote this morning well exceeding my daily goal. Life is so good in so many ways and writing just makes it even better.
Today's Happiness Quote: by Aristotle - To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Today's thoughts and how they relate to my life as a writer: Today's date October 2, 2010 made me think about mirror images and how they are just different enough to matter. Actually it was the process of writing the date numerically that made me think. Sometimes the physical being I take care of, my body and my appearance, tells others that the mental and emotional being I am is sure, confident, and feeling great. Sometimes, though when I look in the mirror I can tell my mental and emotional self is not matching up with my physical appearance and vice-a-verse.
It's true I may be able to hide my issues from some people some of the time, but I know I don't do it all the time. If however I take care of myself mentally and emotionally the same way I take care of my physical appearance and physical body then those images would be less skewed from one another.
This is true of being a writer. If I feel and think like a writer and believe in my whole being that I am a writer, what am I producing in the physical world so others see me for what I really am?
A writer writes plain and simple. Using technology like blogs and twitter makes it possible for writers to demonstrate that they are writers with or without "being published" or having a fabulous book deal. As the saying goes, "If you do what you love, the money will follow" so if I simply just do what I love someday the publishing thing and book deal thing will happen.
Writing goal: complete book draft 70,000-75,000 words by December 31, 2010
Word count to date: 7981
