Coffee With David

The Holidays are over and I can return to the blog posting schedule. Many blogs I have seen posted the “best” or “worse” of 2008. I am going to break with that tradition and stand as though I were on an old tall ship at the bow, letting the air of adventure and the salt waves of 2009 spray me. I wrote in a previous post what my writing production plan is for 2009. It is ambitious to say the least, and to be completely honest I do not expect everything to publish. I would be surprised if half ever was published. Yet, if I let this knowledge weigh on my mind then I will never take the risk. I will not have the enthusiasm or the imagination needed to get even one story published—especially in this hard economy where many of the publishers are looking at cutting staff, amount that is published, or even deciding to leave the business.

Instead, I look upon each story is an adventure and a step on this journey I have undertaken. If I am worried about measuring success, then I shall look upon this as we do baseball. If someone can swing the bat in an American Baseball game, fail to reach the treasured goal of being on base 60 to 70% of the time, and still be called great, then I too shall use the same measuring stick. I am going step up to the plate, swing with all I can, accept the fact that I will not make every story sell, and celebrate the ones that do.

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