is actually my default setting! The need to be proactive overrode it this time, out of necessity beyond all else.

Thanks Mollie. Hope you are doing well, sweetie.

I need to trick myself into overriding my procrastinatrix (that sounds kind of naughty, doesn’t it? I need to go home ;D).

I am learning to set up drop-deadlines that are earlier than the ultimate deadlines, and breaking goals down into smaller parts so that each step I can take a moment to revel in my accomplishment. These are arbitrary constructs, for sure, but they work. Sometimes. Others, there is no substitute for a boot in the bum.

Good luck, Calissa!

your encouragement, as always. It feels like more of a bunt than a homerun, but it’s progress, anyway. Any progress is good progress, I recognize that, so thank you. If I can’t be whole, at least I can be driven. :)

{{{{{Rinny}}}}}

Dude, I feel like I’m always thanking you for something! :) You are the sweetest, really. I would love to have my creative work published, but it is the act of sending it out that it most important to my progress as a writer right now. So yes, you’re right, each submission is to be celebrated. As for my name in fiction lights, we’ll just have to wait and see. Thanks (there it is) again.

You’re right. We do all the work to birth the piece, and yet the work has just begun (an entirely different kind).
Thanks for your empathy, and the luck as well! :)

“I got published!!!!” would be a nice post to type.

Thank you for the title (all yours) and the wishes. They mean a lot.