“Yeah-Boo-Aha"!!!!

Life Enhancement # 44: Finish writing the book that I have been working on for 14 years.

Did you ever have a moment  where life is at a all time high?  Then in an instant the moment plummets to its lowest?  And just when you think all is lost, another instant themoment seems to even itself out?   I call these moments “Yeah-Boo-Aha” moments.
Here is an example.  The  moment started  afterspending a good four hours setting up lights, battling shadows, checking angles, capturing 38 minutes of raw video, sharing laughs and stories.  I was feeling pretty, pretty good! Yeah! I started the upload of all the video fromthe camera to the Mac.   With a few trials and errors, all the videoswere uploaded  (I will confess I am not really a Mac user) I thought.  I took one final checkof the camera!  The discovery sent panic.  No sight or sound of the videos in the camera’smemory! I looked for the videos on thecomputer.  Folder was empty.   No evidence of the hours spent.  Gone.  BOO! Stunned and scared, my mindraced for plan B.  How could I be so arrogantto think I had the expertise?  Did I mention I am not much of a Mac user? Why didthis happen? How could this have happened? What am I to do?  We would have to redo all that work.  Time that was  filled with moments now simply erased between the transferfrom the camera to the computer. My co-partner on the project laughed, but I wanted to cry.  But then the changing instance came  as a voice inmy head.  “Look here!” it said.   And I did!  I looked in one more folder on the computer. There was the 38 minutes, lined up in little segments.  Aha!   How silly I was to doubt myself.  In those quick moments, taking only mere seconds,  Lifetaught me a lesson which is to never give up! 

There has beenmany reasons that it has taken 14 years to finish a novel that I have in my head.  A novel which resides in spiral notebooks and on several computers.  So over the last several days, I started to get excited.  I  tried to take these 14 years of ideas and transfer them to one central location.  I was still even excited about the concept.   But then things got  little foggy.  I realized that my life was so different when I was in my thirties.  Where was I going with this characters? What was the story line? Where was the ending? I became very frustrated.  I started to second guess why I would commit to finishing this book.  A novel that probably no one would  read let alone even care about.  And then, an ad popped up on my monitor:  Aha!

I got it, the moment where there was this sign.  A sign (ad)  that anyone can write a novel and win! Aha!  Now every night, I write 5pages.  I know I won’t be able to submitmy novel this year, but I can tell you that I am going to enter it nextyear. And really what is another year?

Maybe you have a novel that you have written and is just sitting there in a box or in a folder on your computer.  Take the chance and submit it.  You may just find that you have a “Yeah-Boo-Ahh” moment! And if you do, let me know, because if you do I will promise I care and I will read it.

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