How Do YOU Value Your Writing?


Hmmm. Never thought about that have you?
Here's another one. How do you value yourself?
How important are you?
How important are you to yourself?
How important are you to your day?
How important are you to your community?





Have you proven to yourself you have value?


Did you like this exercise in logic?





Pat Davids said...

I love reading your posts, Nina. "Without one of us we are all diminished."

That is so true of WARA and of romance writers in general. It's a profession that values other writers. I find that very satisfying.

I believe I know my importance in my family circle, in my writing circles and in the general scheme of things. I'm a long way from "the best and the greatest", but I enjoy a challenge. I still have time to make it a little farther up the hill.

Thanks for making us take a closer look at our most valuable asset. Ourselves.

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Becky A said...

Hmm, Nina, you're hurting my brain:)
I've never thought it through this far, but you're right. We must see that we, and what we do, are important or we'll never get anything of value to ourselves done.
It's far too easy to let everyone else fill up our schedules.
You got any wisdom on how to stop procrastinating when you do have the time?????

Rox Delaney said...

Hey, Becky! I can't give you any tips on stopping procrastination, but I can pass on a million ways to keep it up. ;)

Rox Delaney said...

Ah, Nina, this is it.

"If I am that way, then why would anyone else honor my writing time?"

We spend so much time being valuable to others, we forget we have value, too. A great reminder! Although my youngest wouldn't agree when she's hungry. ;)

Nina Sipes said...

This article is one of the ways my writer's brain works. It runs down paths to get to the essence of things. It is funny sometimes where it leads me. Quite often I find the essence is a long way from the perception.

Take the perception that writing is a glamorous thing. Yep, I can see Rox and Pat in their gauzy nighties, sitting, eating bon-bons, swigging wine, as they type in an attic with window overlooking a romantic expanse, with a chaise handy to sit in to dreamily contemplate their next chapter--a small fire in the fireplace....

Reality or perception?

But, if we don't put our writerly selves ahead of some things in the que of life, we'll never get anywhere. That part of us is special and needs some importance attached to it by ourselves.

Oh, and about that procrastination thing, Becky. Here's a funny little moment for you. I try to follow when I can (its a help site) and Wednesday's are supposed to be anti-procrastination day. So I was asking someone about how they handle making the little decisions in life that clutter up the tops of things. I got one of those DUH moments when I said I needed a decision day. They asked me if anti-procrastination day wasn't the same as a decision deadline day. My brain gets caught up in semantics all the stinking time--which is why my books are wordy and overworked!
I bless you, oh WARA members that help keep me going forward!

Rox Delaney said...

I can't speak for Pat, but my gauzy nightie is made of fleece, wine makes me puke, my attic is full of my offsprings' non-romantic junk, and my chaise is out being repaired after the g-kids bounced on it too many times. And that clutter on the desk is a foot high, but who cares, right?

By the way, what's reality? Oh, yeah, it's what we get away from when we're writing. *wink*

Nina Sipes said...

Another myth busted!

Pat Davids said...

I don't have a gauzy nightie. I large furry red robe with fleece lined slippers.

I don't have an attic, but I have a wonderful screened in back porch with a fire pit just outside. In good weather, I can write there and I love it.

I often sip wine in the evening but I don't do bon-bons.

Mostly, I stare at the wall in front of my desk and try to make imaginary people talk to me. It's kind of hard some days.