Monday Motivation: Just Keep Swimming
A little Monday Motivation that I need to hear often; “just keep swimming.” Yes, the all-knowing, great and powerful Dory has bestowed upon the universe one of the greatest tidbits of advice. This applies to really anything, especially if you are actually in the ocean on your own hero’s journey, but let’s think about it as writers.
No. No. No. No. Plus a whole bunch more. Generic rejections. Sending queries out into an abyss. Radio silence. Lots of loneliness, self pity and questioning your talent.
But, remember what the wondrous Dory has told us: just keep swimming. We will hear hundreds of noes before that life-changing yes. In many cases, we will simply hear nothing at all. But when we stop swimming, when we stop trying, that’s when we’ve really lost the battle.
You have a story to tell. It beats from within you. Don’t rob the world of reading it because you couldn’t keep swimming. Don’t rob yourself of what you’re meant to accomplish. You know in your heart you have what it takes, so please, for your future audience and yourself, just keep swimming.
