Back in mid-July I blogged about having one of those
tumultuous weeks. Winning competition prizes, being published, starting a new business.
Exciting times. Satisfying. It’s easy to be satisfied when things go well. And
then there is...
It’s writing competition time at the moment. I have
a lot of work before judges. Work I felt pleased with. As good as anything I’ve
written. But nothing is winning. Nothing is making short lists. Results for the
last tender I helped write – back when I was an employee – were poor. Disastrous.
And it makes you ask why? What changed?
How could I have won those awards? Been published those
times? Helped win so many tenders? Received praise for my work? How did that
happen? And why doesn’t it continue?
How do you bounce back? Because not every week will
be great. How much harder it is to keep hitting the keys after bad news. And
things do go bad. We experience loss. We miss out. We fail. They say the secret
is to keep writing. Jump back on the horse – or to use a ‘Wintonism’ – the surfboard.
I guess we ride the waves, enjoy the
tube rides when they come and duck our heads when we are wiped out.
OK, I’ve got a keyboard to wax....
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