This last week is when you make that final push to catch up. You may survive only on coffee and chocolate. You may go without sleep. You may hurt your hands typing and have to resort to speech recognition to get things done. You may come to view the phrase, ‘word count’ as the product of your worst night mares.
But if there is one thing you will not do it is this: you will not falter, you will not give up, and you will not lose. You will not, you cannot lose in this.
I know that you will not lose because not only are you not a quitter, you are a Creator. This month has always been about creating something new and whether you reach that 50,000 or whether you could only manage 5,000 every single word is a part of something new. Never before have those words been put together in just that way. Never before has your story been told. This month is its chance, so give it all you can this week.
Give it your best.
Wake up tomorrow prepared to write as you have never written; new lines and fresh ideas. I know you’ve been at this for the past month. I know you’ve worked hard. I know that it’s hard to imagine coming up with anything new this week, the thing is I know you can. You’re a writer, you’ve been at this for weeks yes, and you’ve learned so much. Look at all that you’ve written. Really look at the reality of the number you’ve been watching for the last few weeks. You did all that. You found new creative depths this month. Don’t let it stop now.
Tomorrow you will wake up and carry on with the same passion that you began with. You will write and learn and create. You will carry through. You are a writer; you cannot lose because whatever this next week brings, you have already won. You have won because this month you learned what it is to be a writer, and you became one.
No one can take that.
No one can diminish it.
No one can change it.
You are a writer.
~Rita
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