What is it about goals that often send a writer skipping in the opposite direction?
If nothing else, it has reminded me – again – that self-discipline is a necessary skill for a writer to experience even a modicum of success. After all, if we do not practice control and discipline how will we ever accomplish a favorable end result? How will we survive the grueling task that is finding an agent/publisher/editor in order to see our books in print? It could happen eventually, of course, but success is not something that occurs out of blind luck. There is a requirement of a struggle, both internal and external. We must endure the critiquing, the re-writing, the editing, the hacking and slashing, the fleshing and all else that being a writer entails.
And if we don’t have self-discipline and control? We will always have a mind (or drawer) filled with ideas rather than a shelf groaning under the weight of our titles on proud display. I don’t know about you, but I would much rather the latter be MY end result.
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