After the Silence – Part 7

“Scars show toughness: that you’ve been through it, and you’re still standing.”

                                    -Theo Rossi

I am not inherently good at writing.

That’s true for most things in my life, but it is especially true of writing.

Everything that I have gained in this profession has been the result of study, practice, and pig-headed refusal to admit I can’t do something.

I know, deep within myself, that I lack some vital spark necessary to create works of stunning depth or supreme wit.  I can’t ever be Robert Jordan or Terry Pratchett.

Yet… I don’t say these things because I have any intention of sitting back and accepting mediocrity.  This is not a cop out, a fallback statement, or an excuse to coast.

No.  These statements are an acknowledgement of the hand that I have been dealt.  I am in this race until it’s over, and I will play the hand that I have for all I’m worth.  I will seek every edge, claw for every advantage, and refuse no opportunity to improve.

It may not add up to much in the end; I could labor in obscurity for all of my days.  I will, however, never let it be said that I refused to throw all that I am and all that I might yet be into the ring.  I will be counted.

I have no reservations or qualifications for the next statement: After the Silence is a joy to write.  I have great plans for this particular beauty, and it is my belief that it will become a cornerstone of my career.  2019 is first in a string of  a year of progress here at The Quill.  Things have begun going right that had no business panning out as well as they have.  It is my time.

I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth: I’m going to ride it until one of us dies.

After the Silence – Part 7

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