Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

I don’t want to jump into the next book-writing project at home. Or do I?

I just finished a writing project at home. Done, wrapped up, self-published on the places where my friends and relatives can by it for 99¢.

Sigh. I don’t want to jump into the first thing that pops into my mind for the next writing project at home. I need to think a while, right?

Wrong. Start on whatever excites me this morning. What happens if I think of something better next week. I will stop what I am doing and write that project instead. Simple.

But, but, but… Okay, there are risks involved and bad things can happen and I can fret about this forever.

Consider this: I will not throw away what I started. I will merely put away what I started.

This put away for now concept is really easy with today’s computers and files and all that. It really wasn’t that hard in the day of the typewriter, manila folder, and file cabinet.

Just do it. It will be alright.