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Anna-Great post but, you know, I disagree. The hrdseat part is not to keep plugging the hrdseat part comes when you've already been plugging for what seems forever. You're sick of the process. You're tired of talking about it. You're done. Ready to move on. The ms feels good. Others agree. And still the response from the industry is tepid: polite interest, rave rejections, and other varieties of indifference.It's the time when you want to blame your agent, the market , or believe that the things that make your book special are the very things keeping it from selling. It's tempting to be bitter. Yet you know there's something you don't know. In your deepest heart you know something's missing.*That's* when true commitment happens. True commitment is not just loving your kid but being honest with yourself. You're not a perfect parent. You have more to learn. There's a better way to do things and a higher set of values to which to rise.The hrdseat part, I think, is having faith when you're completely out of energy, patience and inspiration. It's the faith that you're a storyteller. The story you have to tell is important, even if its form is imperfect. It's faith not in your process, that you can get there , or that doggest persistence will be rewarded.The hrdseat part is having faith in yourself: that your story matters, you can perfect it, you can dig deeper, you can do more, you can not just make it good but completely fulfill its potential and high purpose in this world.The hrdseat part is to empower yourself when you feel powerless, to know that you matter even when you feel you don't, to set aside bitterness and blame and instead embrace the joy of ever deeper mastery.You'll know you've done the hrdseat part not when you find acceptance from others but acceptance of yourself. When you do it won't matter how long it takes. The reward will be in the writing itself.Well okay, I guess I do agree: the Castle script got it wrong. But then, they're not going to spend an hour on him sitting in front of the keyboard, right? TV wants to people to believe that story is some kind of magic. We know better. Ideas are easy. The real magic comes later.Well-loved. Like or Dislike: 9
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Saulo
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