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Writers Nibs: Dip into the Well

 

I went with happiness quotes today, because I'm feeling happy. Happy to be home. Happy my son is well and back in school. Happy The Key won the Dream Realm award. Happy to be back writing--as long as I don't think too much about how many books I'm not selling. Every corner I turn in this business bumps me up against the hard realities, so I try to keep spinning to avoid them and writing as much as I can (when life isn't kicking my trash!).

It's really hard not to look at highly successful authors and dream of being one of them, of making it big. And authors should dream. Otherwise, why write? Why try if you can't hope? But to keep writing when things don't turn out exactly as you hope, well, that's the challenge. I know I write about this a lot. That's because I deal with it a lot in my own writing career. I pour my heart into my books and then hope a lot.

I'm grateful to be published. Grateful my books sell and that each book seems to do better than the last. Grateful I'm with publishers who give my books time to find readers. Grateful for reviewers and blog sites that give me boosts when they can. But in the end, the only thing I can actually control is how I feel about what I do.

I choose to be happy. :-)

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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself.  ~Benjamin Franklin


Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.  ~Jacques Prévert


If you want to be happy, be.  ~Leo Tolstoy


Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.  ~Palmer Sondreal


Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.  ~Robert Anthony


The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.  ~Mark Twain


If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.  ~Edith Wharton


Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.  ~Cynthia Nelms

 

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