Do What You Have To Do

I've been writing with the intent of publication for approximately three years. While I've always (ALWAYS) wrote, I've only recently allowed myself to believe I could make a go of this.

So as what I consider a baby author I sometime have difficulty taking the next step or balancing what I need to do with what I WANT to do. But just like in my everyday life there are things I have to do that I may not wanna do. Run errands, grocery shop (ick), clean the kitchen, bathe the cat... All those things need to get done.

Just like in my writing life I need to WRITE, promo, edit, plot, plan, and a million other things and just like wrestling my fat cat boy into the bathtub, I may wake up on any given morning and not want to write. Or promo. Or edit. Hell, or do anything at all except stare at the life force/energy draining boob tube that sits less than 3 feet away from my bed.

So on those days that you don't want to do what you HAVE to do, what do you do? If you're anything like me, you put on your big girl panties and do what you have to do. You write even though every word you type seems to suck with a super strength that would bring a man to his knees. You smile and type witticisms when all you wanna do is curl up in a ball and eat a gallon of ice cream. You read your upcoming release for the 8th time and you...Do what you have to do.

I'm not Nora. I may never reach that Nora-like status, but in order to get to where I need to be I am going to have to do certain things. Things I may not want to do but in the long run I have to ask myself what I want more. To watch a talk show about Men sleeping with their Wives’ brothers who are really Transsexual women midgets or do I wanna see my name on the USA Today's best sellers list.

Yeah...We all know the answer…

So when you don’t think you can put one foot in front of the other what do you do to get over that self-made mountain?