Me attitude? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!

It occurred to me some of you may be really new to the idea of writing.  You have a great creative bent, but you may not even be a avid reader.  I have a friend, she reads staggaring amounts of books!  It is one of her many things.  I USED to read alot, but as I said, my time and my eyes have not been condusive to wanting to read much anymore.  I do read SOME but more for knowledge than entertainmant.  

Well, I am writing about attitude because I have one!  There is another reason I chose John Constable as part of my header for this blog.  You see, I have been drawing and creating all my life.  Discovered I could draw at age 4 when my mother sat me down to do a drawing the same as my older sister was doing for school.  She would have been about nine at the time and it wasn't that it really wasn't that bad a job. I remember the day like it was yesterday!  It was the day my life changed, and likely was one of the saving points for me.  My drawing was in perspective.  At the time of course I didn't know what persepective was, but it was like the photo...a calendar scene of a fishing village in Peggy's Cove.  My sister's was not bad.  She put a lot of work into it, but mine was better.  It was obvious just as it was obvious to me when I looked at a little playdough scuplture of a whale when which my son showed me when he was  4.  They were not just good, they were REALLY good.  There was more there than what my sister had.  Not to say if she had been encouraged she wouldn't have been good since it does run in the family, this artistic streak, just to say, what is obvious often gets encouraged.  That simple.  I think that was the day my sister decided to make my life miserable because she certainly did!  But I digress!

The point of this rambling is that sometimes when you have confidence, when you believe in yourself when no one else does, such as I developed via years of standing out and trying new things, you do develop an attitude.  It is not a BAD attitude, but it is an attitude just the same, You stop thinking about why you CAN'T do something, and you start thinking "WHY NOT?  WHY CAN'T I DO IT IF OTHER'S ARE!"

It is a simple little flip in how you think, but there you have it, it is there.  I chose Constable to remind me of my days at the art school.  Days of art history and doing what other's expected, only to have teachers in the end challenge me to forget everything I knew and do what I wanted!  All that art history, all those ideas floating around of how I SHOULD do something or CAN'T do something, all had to be thrown out!  

So you see, yes, I don't read avidly, I cannot really.  And yes, I may not have perfect grammar, but one thing I do have is attitude, perhaps like The Fool, but attitude none the less!

How many great discoveries were made because someone had attitude? Who was told it couldn't be done but went ahead and did it anyhow!  Just look at the man that almost sailed off the edge of the world, Oops!  HE DIDN'T!  And yes, you or I may not have the best pedigree of skills but what do we have?  We have attitude!  And sometimes that attitude can go a long way to getting you off in a new direction!

Just look at the now BILLION dollar writer who is now sitting along side some of the greatest names in literary history....  J.K.Rowlings;author of Harry Potter and more.  

Do you think she had attitude?  You better believe it!  In October 2010, Rowling was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading magazine editors.[10]The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 25 October 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2010.

She was a researcher who went through hell and was on assistance when she wrote her first book!  Death of her mother, birth of a child, divorce and then just sitting on a train, POP, in comes an idea for her book!  She worked her ass off for 7 years and was successful in five.  She did the work.  LOTS of work but she did it because she had a vision, an idea and she was willing to put the time in to make it happen.  So can I and so can you!  

Do you get there by thinking about all the reasons you CAN'T DO SOMETHING?  NO!  You get there by looking at all you can!  

I will go through the writing and reading of blogs and other info and I will take what I want and chuck the rest.  I know what I am writing may not be a best seller, and I know it may never even get published but that is not why I do it.  I do it for two reasons.  One I can say since it won't give away the novel's theme but the other I can.  I write because I love to!  As you will see with these blogs, I enjoy putting thoughts into words.  They may not always come out that cohesively, but come they will!

So if you feel you have a book inside you, and you love to write, then what the hell!  Stop putting the whole thing on a pedestal.  Stop making it precious.  One thing I learned from painting, if you go into a doing a painting with the idea you have to do a masterpiece every time, you won't get past the blank canvas!  So if you want to write, then Write!  That simple!  I am not going to paint like Constable, but I am going to be the optimistic fool who walks off the end of a cliff.  What the hell!