Inspire me.
Sometimes I just read something that...hmmm. I don't want to say it makes my hair stand on end, because that's a bit of a cliche. Let's say, something that grabs me at the base of my skull and squeezes, that shouts "YES!" right in my ear. Yeah, I know, there's medication for that.
Anyway, often it's just one or two sentences that does this to me. I have one such taped to my desk, right above my monitor: "Many people will tell you that you can't write. Let no one say that you don't." Another runs through my head at regular intervals: "'I don't have time' is a value statement."
Tonight I was blog-surfing, instead of writing or doing any of the work I brought home, in direction contravention of #1 and #2 above, I know. Which just goes to show, inspirational quotes alone are not enough. Sitll, they are something, and tonight's was, "You are not a goddamn beggar at the banquet of publishing." Courtesy of the inimitable Ms. Reid. Something I must remember, when I start looking for agents, because I think it would be far too easy for me to fall into the trap she's talking/ranting about. Any agent who will take me is a good agent!
But not.
Must remember.