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Quick post
Mar. 29th, 2011 09:52 amI have about 90 minutes left of "vacation," my final act of which is to get a massage to work out the kinks from 6 days of driving, but before I head to the gym for the massage, a quick post.
I'm feeling unusually optimistic today. Earlier this morning I read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jbknowles ' remniscences of a teacher who changed her life and shaped her future. Often this kind of post makes me feel rather sad and sorry for myself. (I'm not proud to admit that, but it's the honest truth.) The one fiction writing teacher I had in college was a disappointed and destructive person, and my own tendency to see the negative in a situation made it hard for me to prosper without a cheerleader. Sometimes I dwell on negativities such as these, but today I read Jo's story and thought, wow, okay, now I get it! And though we've never met Jo has been serving as a quiet and sometimes raucous cheerleader for me for years, as have others here on LJ. And I am so grateful for that support, and I look forward to passing on that support to young (and older) writers. And I'm slowly slowly doing it, getting there, learning how to do the work, dare to do it badly so that I can get better, and to silence the voices that tell me not to. So I'm about 25 years late onto the boat. Better late than never.
Time for my massage.
I'm feeling unusually optimistic today. Earlier this morning I read
jbknowles ' remniscences of a teacher who changed her life and shaped her future. Often this kind of post makes me feel rather sad and sorry for myself. (I'm not proud to admit that, but it's the honest truth.) The one fiction writing teacher I had in college was a disappointed and destructive person, and my own tendency to see the negative in a situation made it hard for me to prosper without a cheerleader. Sometimes I dwell on negativities such as these, but today I read Jo's story and thought, wow, okay, now I get it! And though we've never met Jo has been serving as a quiet and sometimes raucous cheerleader for me for years, as have others here on LJ. And I am so grateful for that support, and I look forward to passing on that support to young (and older) writers. And I'm slowly slowly doing it, getting there, learning how to do the work, dare to do it badly so that I can get better, and to silence the voices that tell me not to. So I'm about 25 years late onto the boat. Better late than never.Time for my massage.
