There’s a story of a group of people who went for a
walk in the woods.
Only one of the poor souls came back.
The group had been attacked by a bear.
Everyone was, of course, grief stricken, and
wondered how the lucky soul returning had been fast enough to get away when his
companions hadn’t.
“It was quite simple, really.” The wise soul said.
“You don’t have to be faster than the bear. You just need to be faster than the person behind
you.”
This was one of my biggest “Ah ha” moment as a
writer, the day I first heard this.
For me, it was I didn’t see how I would ever get
published. And I had so many excuses. But it was in that moment that I realized -
so did everybody else, and that most people don’t ever get away from them.
They quit. They
give up. They quit running. And they get eaten by the bear.
But I don’t have to be.
As long as I just.
Keep. Writing.
Tom's website is here. His books are Veil of the Dragon, Awakening Evarun, Wolfbane - I Gotta Be Me, What Scares the Boogeyman.
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