When I think about the vast landscape of what I haven’t written yet it feels daunting.  There are so many authors out there writing way more than me. I can picture them writing away at this very moment outpacing me word by word.

It takes a lot of stories and a lot of submitting for authors to gain even a small presence. Having had some success, I also know that you have to write a lot of bad stories before you finally unearth the good ones.

It’s a lot like the feeling I get when I have a big TODO list. it’d daunting, I just know I will never get through it all.

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

That mindset has helped me, no only with my TODO lists, but with writing as well. There is a power to realizing that I really only need to focus on the very next story. After that, I really only need to focus on submitting it. After that, move onto the next one. We eat the cow one hamburger at a time, as the saying goes.

If you are like me and often feel buried under the weight of what you haven’t written, step back from the overwhelming wide view and narrow it down.

It’s not: look at all I have to do!

But rather

What’s next?

Let me know in the comments below what’s next for you.

-James