Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Staying Positive
Filed Under: Writing Advice, creativity
I need to take a short break from writing blog posts today so that I can finish up my new business website and get things rolling on it. Instead, today, I offer you this link from Rusch:
Remaining positive sounds like such a minor thing. Yet it is the key to everything. Oddly enough, successful freelancers are the most cynical, hard-bitten optimists in the entire world.
We have to be. Who would believe in us if we didn’t believe in ourselves?
No one discusses remaining positive at a day job, unless it is a requirement of that day job. When I worked as a waitress, I had to smile at the customers and be nice. It was in the job description. The same rules applied, perhaps more stringently, at my very first retail job. We had to be so incredibly nice at that store that we were required (again, as part of the job description) to wish each and every customer a very nice day.
It’s a great post, and I highly recommend you head over and read it.
Comments
05-22-2009
Awesome link, thanks! I think I will put “Cynical, hard-bitten optimist” on my business cards.
05-22-2009
It’s a good descriptor!
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