Re: Hi!

> Hello Rhia.  I just started using this subboard and look forward to the input
> as well as the exchange.  I recently completed a manuscript for a book
> dealing with what I hope contains some personal insights.  I must confess I'm
> not a professional writer and my chances of getting published is a very long
> shot.  But life is filled with long shots and if you're going to write you
> really have to be the type who'll doggedly hang on to your dreams Heh?
> Looking forward to receiving and getting support through this message base.
> Sounds like you're on the right track.  Keep up the goal-setting. 

     Hello Don,

     Welcome to Writer's Workshop!  Funny you should mention hanging onto
your dreams.  My first novel is titled DREAMS and I just resumed working on
it.  I've been working on this novel for four years now.  You are right
though, you have to keep trying even though it does seem like a long shot.
The only was to succeed is to keep trying...write, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite.
     I think that once you've learned to survive rejection and still keep
writing, you've made it further than most.  When you learn to appreciate the
fact that editors are there to make your work the best it can be and not to
tear apart your work, you've beaten a few more odds.
     Goal setting has always been am important tool for me.  Without goals,
I'd sit here wondering what to do next.  Sometimes I don't accomplish the
goals I've planned for the week, but instead replace them with other ones
that have come up.  Either way though, goal setting keeps me moving forward.
     Then again though, I'm someone who loves to work under a deadline.  A
lot of people can't work with deadlines because it's too much pressure.
Lucky for me, I do my best work under pressure.  I think because all my focus
is on the task at hand.  Without deadlines, I tend to put things off.
Setting goals in public, such as here in Writer's Workshop, works as a sort
of self-imposed deadline.  I picture folks sitting in front of their
monitors, wondering WHY I didn't make one of my goals that week.  I suppose
in reality, most don't give a rip, but thinking they might, keeps me working.

          Rhia

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