I love the book, Oh, The Places You'll Go! by Dr Seuss. It's all about believing in yourself. To paraphrase, I have brains in my head. I have feet in my shoes. I can steer myself any direction I choose. And the direction I choose is writing.
But there's a page in there where he talks about "A most useless place. The waiting Place... for people just waiting." I'm familiar with the territory. Waiting for editors to read my manuscripts, or to hear back about contests, it sometimes feels like I'm eternally in The Waiting Place. (Though I have to say the Waiting Place beats the heck out of the Slump. Because "when you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.")
I definitely try to use my time in The Waiting Place productively - ie by keeping writing, getting more work ready to send out, honing my craft. I have faith that as Dr Seuss reassures, "Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing." And trust me - boom bands will definitely be playing in this house when I finally get The Call.
In the meantime..."My mountain is waiting." I need to get up on my way.
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What I have read of your writing sandra, has been amazing.
I love your style, and I know your writing is straight from the heart I know that your time in "the waiting place" is limited. Just you wait, I can hear those "boom bands" already!
In the mean time, good luck with all future pursuits...
Sandra, how funny both our posts are entitled The Waiting Game! Must be a case of GMTA!!
I totally agree that no matter how much the waiting sucks, it definitely beats being in the slump (a horrible place, I've been fiddling about in there for far too long just lately!)
I hope you hear back very soon with great news from your contest entries, and especially from the editors!
Can't wait to hear your Boom Band start to play and I know it won't be long. Of course I'm not going to mention that once you sell there is a whole new kind of waiting invented to drive your sanity into a small dark place!!!!
Yeah, Amanda, but the grass is always greener etc and I'm sure I'll enjoy that waiting! And hopefully you'll be able to remind me of that comment one day.
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