Accountability

My adventure in Beaverton meeting Lili St. Crow, Ilona Andrews and her husband Gordon, and Devon Monk has inspired me. I met a ton of amazing women there who have published and were just regular, every day women with families and kids, doing their writing for various reasons. But all of them had this in common- they made their writing their job. When they had free time they wrote, they wrote every day whether they felt like it or not, and to get published they TRIED. They didn't just sit around expecting it happen. They waded through hundreds of rejection letters until finally they got that one acceptance.

That's what I want to do.

The problem is I'm terrible at actualizing my dreams unless I'm held accountable by other people. By doing a blog announcing what I am doing and why, I have the potential to be accountable to a ton more people- though even if it was just five it would get me going. The writing part isn't the issue (though I definitely want to buckle down and write at least 200 words every day), it's the trying part of getting publishing knowing I have a high degree of failure ahead of me. But that's okay. That's what everyone goes through. This blog would be a way to remind myself of that.