The Writing Life
Writing, as an activity, often is a free-form sort of thing. Writers arrive to the work, and they work for a certain amount of time or until the words satisfy them. Such constraints can be enough, but for the writers who want to become better, deadlines are necessary.
Life happens. When it does, you often can’t control the circumstances or their outcomes. You can, however, control how you respond to them.
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Any time I think about deadlines, I think of the infamous incident when I missed one. My mom thinks the story is false since she doesn’t remember it, but I know it happened. I was in the sixth grade. I had a history essay or a book report due. I didn’t write it. I missed the deadline. Punishment was given.
If a person follows my blog for any length of time, he or she will discover that I have little patience for absolute statements or generalizations. They tend to turn me into a rebel. I become determined to prove the statement wrong. That happens to be the case with the following statement: “All people are deadline driven and time oriented.”