Throw Yourself In

The Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down.
"That is the way," he said.
"But there are no stairs."
"You must throw yourself in. There is no other way."

~ "The Golden Key," Dealing with the Fairies, George MacDonald
(Taken from What the Door Mouse Said, collected by Amy Gash)

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Writing is like the Old Man of the Earth's hole - we must throw ourselves in if we want to get anywhere.

• A blank page? Throw yourself in.
• Editing? Throw yourself in.
• Querying? Throw yourself in.
• Marketing? Throw yourself in.

Well, you see what I mean. It's far easier to talk about how we want to be writers, to dream about having the perfect agent, to imagine our books at Barnes & Noble than it is to actually make it happen. But "making it happen" requires work and risk and some blind faith.

Today... Throw yourself in!!