The Wounded Writer

I had spent the better part of the day writing a beautiful blog post for you guys.  It was lovely, I tell you, all about being an active dreamer in your writing life.  It had anecdotes, iy had quotes.  You would have laughed, you would have cried.  It was a work of art.  I was reading it over one last time before hitting the send button and . . .

MY COMPUTER DIED!!!!!

One minute I was listening proofing and grooving to some Native American chants.  The next, dead silence and the screen went black.  This is never good unless you have actually turned the machine off.  Turns out I had inadvertently let my finicky battery run dry.  As soon as I plugged the power cord in I could turn it back on and . . .

MY POST WAS GONE!!

Okay, one paragraph was still there, the one I'd written like two days ago when I wanted to leave a marker reminding me what I wanted to post about (middle age memory, don't you know).  But all the other paragraphs were gone!  What the hell happened to autosave?  Ever since google fu--I mean switch the editor for Blogger, all kinds of crazy crap has been happening to me.

I was all set to be unhappy, until I happened upon the video below.  I know a little about being the wounded healer, as in practicing reiki I have cleared a problem that plagued me nearly since birth.  By helping others, I helped myself.

It's the same thing with writing.  We all have setbacks.   We all have failures.  We all feel inadequate or hurt at times by how our writing is going or how our work is received by others.  We can either wallow in self-pity or we can pick ourselves up and learn to see the lesson inherent in our situation, not just the disappointment when things don't go well.  We can reach out to other authors who have not known the trials we have and try to smooth their path.  I am a firm believer that there is enough success, enough glory, enough fame, enough accolades--enough, for all of us to help each other without the fear that we will somehow be diminished.

So, enjoy the video.  I hope it will speak to you on some level and show you that no matter what stage you are on this writing path, you have something to offer others even if it is only to set a shining example of what they too might become.

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