Obsessions/Success/Underground-Resolution

Obsessions; OCD (obssesive compulsive disorder) is a disease. It is healthy to have goals, dreams. To carry out a project, good, healthy consistency and key stick-to-it-iveness go a long way. It is key for success, getting up just one time more than you get knocked down wins. You are the winner for showing up at the page. It is a good part of the goal completed, the manuscript, book, cover, formatting it for electronic publishing. Goals, subgoals, tasks, smaller steps add up to the summit. The secret is that once you hit the summit, keep climbing. After the first book you have up your sleeve the capabilities of writing books. Please do not stop at the first one. You have put hours in w/out realising the skills you now have. Use them. Use obsession not as a clinical term, better; use it as the maverick, the fiery, burning desired soul to achieve good things, maybe great things. That sense.

Success; Where do you go w/ this one? What is success in your writing? What do you define as success? Do you have a sufficient description of your success, what you consider reaching the goal in your writing? Goals at different stages, in certain areas may differ from you at different growth stages/spurts, and others too will be at different places on the narrow road of recovery, recovery of your skills, talents, and capabilities in writng and other creative endeavors. In goal setting you need to know your goals. Thoroughly. One must acknowledge the obstacles; take doable steps, gentler steps being the healthiest. You will learn to develop the skills of goal setting. Today is good, tomorrow, better. And the most important writing goal is the goal for the day. This ideally in writing is a consistent goal-setting practice along the way for the project size of a book's manuscript. The ways in which we grow is sometimes non-measurable. Still look for a perspective being open-minded. And look for a changing point-of-view. When I started I used five pages a day. A conventional choice would be say a one thousand word count. (It seems word count is taking over numbers of pages due to electronic readers and consequently font size, ... other characteristics.) After that I chose a next draft goal at 25 pages a day. Then through that a few more times before it got churned like butter, a texture of oatmeal maybe, say? An editor is almost always a sure step then. One has a need for another's view where that person will see through, where you simply see differently, catching rascally, deceptive gremlins, needed changes.

Basically know what your goal is. Work at it ; do the footwork. If you want to master this sport see ahead that you will put 10,000 hrs. of quality time, giving yourself a break of focusing just on today's goal is sufficient. It is like the sailboat tacking, one tack at a time, aiming for the "far-away" shore. Give yourself acknowledgement, knowing your goal and reaching it as it is defined "reached."

Underground-Resolution; What the hell do I mean with that? Take the premise that there is no high art/low art. You have as part of your book project, you have the need for marketing, reaching the person that will benefit from your product, reach the tribe, make the tribe, the reader demographics where you have met the customers' needs. I mean you have really met the readers' needs. The market drives the business. You are not going to satisfy everyone. Accept it. You are writing for the reader who wants your book, and will increase the persons' quality of life, will give them meaning and some/many other gains in progressing through this world. Not common win/lose situations; it is more where it is a win/win ending to the story. Resolve where you are. Rise above the obstacles making you the "big you, the big person." Resolve to accept where you are, maybe not agreeing w/ it. You are definitely set to growth. If it is from the depths of the underground to seeing "daylight again" where you have reached the point that in the time to come you will be assured that you will know you have given what's truly yours. "I'll know the time that has come to give what is mine." Neil Young. Go for what you want. Choose life, generating life, producing w/ one's life, giving, generously, be a service to others. Resolution; Writing is a tribal/community thing. Rise above any toxicity you can. Give/recve/learn/labor/work. The only secret to life besides enjoying the passage of time at any level, is that it is work. Take a day to study from time to time, too! Write a healthy book. Keep going. Said in a certain culture; Everyone should do three things in there lifetime; plant a tree; have children; and ... write a book. Wouldn't it be a shame not to do that w/ your life, w/in your lifetime.

Go at it, and enjoy life, good luck, T.E.