On a charming blog called “I am Sarah Grace,” she shares “10 lessons I’ve learned from both running and writing.” She did it as a celebration of writing the 50,000th word of her novel (congratulations, Sarah). Here is one of her points:
5. I don’t have to be the best to be legitimate.
I have a couple of friends who run a mile in 6:30, and that’s after they’ve run several. I am not like them. I’m lucky if I can run a couple of 8s in a row, I can usually put up 10s, and on a hard day I’ll run 12s. It’s easy to think, “Oh, I’m not a real runner because I can’t do it as fast as those people,” but that’s not true. Runners just run.
I also know people who’ve been published more than I have, who have writing credits that far outweigh mine. It would be easy for me to say, “I’m not a writer until I’ve been published at such-and-such a level or so-and-so many times,” but that’s not true, either. Writers write.
You can read the rest of her ten lessons learned from writing and running here.
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