Do you stop, hold your breath, count to ten, raise your eyes to the sky?
What helps you to be patient?
Do we have time for patience in this world?
At the graduation day of my nephew last week the speaker included this quote:
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Gardening and writing are both a game of patience.
Think of the countless authors who have folders full of rejection letters, think of the gardener planting seeds.
Patience and hope are needed. Will your writing develop into something truly worthwhile? Will the seed you planted or the cutting you took grow into something beautiful?
I have just been so delighted by this honeysuckle – I took a cutting from the one in my garden last year, dipped it in some rooting powder and stuck it in my raised bed.
Hey presto!
A beautiful flower and even better, I got to divide it in two; one for my garden and one to give to my parents.
Definitely a win for patience and hope.
Now just to keep on writing!
Switch the Kettle on, Love 
True. Writing is never easy. It’s challenging and it doesn’t happen overnight though it might seem that way for some. So many writers have said that it takes years of hard slog and it’s true. Writing is a process and it takes months, years even to nurture. This is why it is such a rewarding pursuit certainly for me. Keep writing, Sareen!
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Thank you, Gillian! Am looking forward to reading more of your work.
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