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This poem came in late 2005, the day after I decided to devote much more attention to the development of this web site:
The Giving
Is purpose. Through all my years growing toward sky and sun,
I was self-contained, though concerned. And was good, in my branching out. Yet now, in later years, I
find the full joy of my giving,
that love that returns to God and others wh
Some writers sign a contract for a book or an article but need help in handling the ups and downs that might be experienced in a major project. The first of two short articles from my latest book, “Tips to Writers from a Book Publisher,” encourages you to think long-term, that your health is going to be around a lot longer than any single project.
See if these articles offer you some tips to use in your next sizable project, so you can take all the joy you can muster from the experience and let go everything extraneous.
If you would like to help me in some way to promote “Tips to Writers from a Book Publisher” to the world, and receive a free ebook copy of the title, go to the landing page at PathPublishing.com and tell us how you can help. Place your comments in the box that can also be used for leaving book ideas. Please include your e-mail address.
Keeping Your Health
You must keep your health! Please don’t get stressed out about money, deadlines, personal expectations, grumpy people, publisher requests, or anything else. Long term is more important than short term. Take time to relax (Bible reading and prayer included), eat well (as much organic food as possible), drink good water (avoiding coffee, soft drinks, and alcohol), say no to prescription drugs wherever possible (find organic substitutes that don’t have side effects—local health food stores can help greatly), keep your body free from s*xual immorality (s*x outside marriage will make your body sick or kill you), avoid risky actions (don’t go bungee jumping even if a friend gives you a free ticket), and stay happy no matter what happens!
Then when writing and business success come your way, you can enjoy them in peace.
For many more ideas about keeping your health, read my article, “How to Stay Healthy in a Sick World,” the fourth chapter in Making Life Work for You. At PathPublishing.com, click on MORE, then Writings to Read.
Overcoming Frustration
The next time you are the discouraged about a rejection slip; or work on a novel for four years, have it published, and then feel like the publisher was disappointed in sales and will never ask you back; or you read part of one of your books before an audience and have to put up with, amazingly, a heckler, think back to other times.
Remember when you were a child, took up a crayon and knocked out a story of some four or five pages, and showed it to your mom, who was impressed. Later you showed it to your dad after he got home from work and he smiled as if admiring your accomplishment, though he was not the literary type and did not understand such things.
Remember about age 10, when in one of your classes a biography about Abraham Lincoln inspired you to wonder if you could ever be a professional writer. That even if you could never live a life that changed a country the way Lincoln did, at least you could put an important life on paper and encourage others.
How at 18, at your graduation ceremony, the valedictorian, who you always thought was something of a snob, struck a chord in you when he talked about living life to the fullest, each of us in our own unique way.
Then at 28, in a magazine you got a filler published, which you thought was at least as good as the cover story.
Nowadays, no matter how many trials you have, as you mostly work at writing part-time, you do indeed have your dream life. And you have years ahead in order to write something really worthwhile, whether the world of readers ever fully appreciates it or not. At least on your deathbed you can say that you took charge of your dream and you lived it.
From…
Tips to Writers from a Book Publisher: Making Book Publishing a Fun Adventure
By John Schmidt
Paperback is available at Amazon.com for $9.99, 143 pages.
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John Schmidt is the author of twenty-six works. To find out more about him and several of the titles, please visit…
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