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SOAR
When I was about eight years old, my sister and I received matching blue bicycles for Christmas. Sleek and shiny, we couldn’t wait to try them out, but my mother would only allow us to ride them under her supervision.
That first day we were dutiful children, only riding up and down our driveway. The next day however was a different story.
My parents left us alone at the house while they ran some errands. We, being ordinary kids, decide this would be the perfect time to test our bicycle-riding wings and see if we couldn’t soar like eagles without our mother around.
Fat chance.
What DID happen was a major crash and burn as we both lost control of our bikes as we tried to circumvent a parked car from opposite sides which ended up damaging both bikes almost beyond repair.
We limped back home and tried to hide them in the garage, but of course my mother found out; promptly tanning our hides in the process for disobeying her!
My point to this whole story is not that I got into trouble, but the fact, even at a young age, I thought if I tried hard enough, I could soar toward an obtainable goal.
I feel the same way about this writing journey I'm on. It's a precarious balance between soaring toward my dreams of more published books and my dreams crashing or burning to the ground.
SOARING means I believe in my skills as a storyteller.
Crashing means there are days when I allow thoughts of self-doubt to cloud my artistic judgement.
SOARING means I send my polished manuscripts out into the world, knowing someone will publish them one day.
Crashing means accepting the fact rejection is part of the publishing process and not a reflection of my personal strength as a writer.
SOARING allows my spirit to be lifted by the dreams that carry me forever forward on my publishing quest.
Crashing sets up mental roadblocks to my becoming the best writer I can be.
SOARING or crashing?
Which would YOU rather focus on?
It really doesn’t matter how many time you may stumble or even fall on this wonderful journey we are all on.
What counts is how many times we get back up, strap our wings back on, and try to soar again until we reach the clouds!
Have an awesome day my DCSPeeps because you deserve it!
Children's book author, Donna L
Martin, has been writing since she was eight years old. She is a 4th
Degree Black Belt in TaeKwonDo by day and a 'ninja' writer of
children’s picture books, middle grade chapter books and young adult
novels by night. Donna is a BOOK NOOK REVIEWS host providing the latest
book reviews on all genres of children’s books. She is also a book
reviewer for Harper Collins, and a member of the Society of Children's
Book Writers & Illustrators. Donna is a lover of dark chocolate,
good stories, and an adoptive mom to 20-pound guard kitty in
Knoxville, Tennesse
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