Writers Face Many Kinds of Days

 

What good advice our poster quote has for us today. Four places we've all been and a positive reason for each. Let's look at them, one by one.

1. Good days give happiness:  In our writing world, happiness prevails when our writing runs smoothly. Also when we get an acceptance letter or email from an editor. We zoom up on the Happiness chart. Elation is our friend when we receive the publication that our work in which our work is published. Any one of these things will bring joy. If only we could bottle it and use some on days that are not so good.
2. Bad days give experience:  We all have bad days as we move down our writing path. There are days when nothing goes right. You get stuck in a story. You try to revise a draft and it looks like an impossible task. Words fail you when you need them the most. I don't know about you, but when things start going wrong in the morning, it seems like the problems last through the day. Maybe it's a bad attitude that makes it feel that way. Someone should do a study on this.
3. Worst days give lessons:  Whenever we hit one roadblock after another, we should step back and look for the lesson. It's there, but very often, we are blind to it. We do have to search sometimes to find the lesson we should learn when our writing day goes into a deep, dark well. Don't give up. Keep asking yourself what you should or could learn from what happened. Be sarcastic if you must, but keep searching for something you can learn. 
4. Best days give memories:  Now here's a positive that we can benefit from. We keep the best days in our memory bank for a long time. Every now and then, it's helpful to ponder on the memory of one of the best times in your writing life. Maybe you won an award or a contest or landed a great contract. Those are experiences we'd like to live over and over. Maybe, if you're having a bad day trying to write, you should reach for those memories of the good things that you experienced to give yourself a needed boost. 

Did you notice that the word 'give' appears in each of the four points? 'Give' and 'gift' are related. Consider the four points as a gift to help you move on your writing journey. Now, look again at the opening of today's quote Never regret a day in your life. I'd insert the word 'writing' before life since we're visiting about writing on this blog.