How Do You Celebrate Your Accomplishments...?
Where Fleur finishes a stinky rough draft of a novel and thinks about cake.
It’s always interesting to me to see someone wildly successful, to think about how they got there. Like Taylor Swift (my daughter’s a fan), or Stephen King, or… Well, fill in the blank of whoever you admire. They seem to have it all together, but what you don’t see is all the quiet hours, late or early in the morning, all alone and working. All those years when they weren’t a big deal. All the disappointments, the work they had to discard or polish or change to get to the success they are now.
It takes a lot of work and dedication to produce a book, an album, or any other art for that matter.
I in no way equate my accomplishments to these greats. I’m just a little writer in my tiny office, writing a book. But I love to think that we all write and create one word, one step at a time.
And you have to celebrate your accomplishments. I just finished the rough draft, a skeleton of a novel manuscript, and I’m thinking about celebrating. With cake, as is tradition in my house. Ever since Covid, when life was very drab and Midnight at the Barclay Hotel received so many accolades but without ceremony, my daughters and I have cake whenever something good happens.
This cake is especially necessary when your accomplishment means you toiled away for months (and months), with only your own determination to guide you. Like writing a book.
How do you celebrate when you’ve accomplished something, or you get good news?
What I’m Writing Next
Rest is for the wicked! Well, I am going to take a day or two to celebrate that stinky rough draft, but I also have my eye on this non-fiction writing craft book I put on the backburner for a while. It’ll be a good palate cleanser after all this WWII research…
I’m also pulling out a few short story ideas and unfinished manuscripts. I love writing short stories, so that’ll be fun.
Your Weekly Floof
Floof has claimed this chair in my office, but is always on the lookout for our dog George, in case he tries to steal it. Drama, drama…
