![]() ![]() Next, look at the larger scale picture of where you are now. Take that moment to smile to yourself, pat yourself on the back and say ‘well look at that!’ You have done that. Dig out old first drafts, first sketches, check out your first tentative steps into the world of children’s literature and acknowledge that you have moved forward. When I feel like this, looking at it in three different ways helps me to get perspective. Why bother carrying on when it does this to you? This is the squashed moment. The pressure is too great to bear and in that moment your head screams at you to give up. Sometimes the emotion of the moment, the rejection, the plot hole, the re-write, whatever it is, can all feel too much. Cultivating resilience is not an easy thing, but it is possible. ![]() Bounce back from what? Obviously in the context of the definition it’s about rubbery substances that return to their original form after being pulled out of shape or squashed, but what if we apply that to creators? How do we bounce back after being squashed? It was this last definition that particularly hit a nerve with me. ![]()
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