I love Thursday’s. Not like I love Tuesday’s, but it’s definitely one of my top two favorite days of the week. Why? It’s my day off! Who doesn’t like one of those?
Stay up late on Wednesday nights
Sleep in on Thursday morning
Eat a late breakfast (which I believe is called brunch)
Go to one of my favorite cafe’s and write for hours
Check out the second hand stores and maybe a local bookstore
Fix a lazy dinner of popcorn, grapes and amazing cheese
Take a long bubble bath and be in my pj’s before sundown.
Drink a cup of peppermint tea and binge watch a few episodes of Hawaii Five-O on Netflix (yes, I enjoy living vicariously through anyone living in Hawaii)
And finally…falling asleep with my ocean sounds pumping through my ears – I use Spotify, for all of those who thought I had moved from the desert to the coast, but I love dreaming of waking up one day actually hearing the real thing.
So that’s why I love Thursday’s. Oh, wait…there is one other reason. My paycheck gets direct deposited on Thursday night.
Here is a little bit about my Thursday:
Today was cold and rainy here in Arizona. We don’t have many of them, but when they show up and it happens to fall on my day off, I feel very lucky. My umbrella which I purchased about 10 years ago, gets used about 3-4 times a year. It will last me a lifetime as long as I don’t let it sit in my car during the summer and get baked.
I was happy with the writing time I got in today. After the difficult review I received on my current story, I decided to take a break from my novel and pull up a few of my short stories. I did some serious editing. After removing all unnecessary adverbs and replacing them with stronger, more colorful words, I then added a few scenes and deleted a few. It was a blast! I felt good afterwards. More revived than anything.
Several years ago I took a writing course online, and Stephen King did an interview that we were required to watch. I have to be honest, I know he’s an extremely successful author and known world-wide, but I have never been into the scary/horror genre, so have only read a few of his books. Primarily the few that are not scary. Examples: The Green Mile. 11-22-63. Hearts In Atlantis to name a few. Anyway, I brought up Stephen King for a reason.
He told us about all of the letters of rejection that he had received from publishers throughout his early days of writing. He said he found a nail and each time he received a rejection letter, he would hang it on that nail. As he was telling the story, he paused and said “I had to get a bigger nail.”
I remember laughing with surprise and even admiration. He talked about how each of those negative letters pushed him to be better. Each critical word actually showed him where he needed to improve. I found that very encouraging.
I suppose it is all in our perspective. How we choose to look at something. Am I going to let it knock me down or will I use it as an opportunity to do better?
I’m just going to buy a big nail right off the bat, rather than wait.
Just thinking out-loud,
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