I'm working on a book. I've been at it for a while, in fact. Years. And guess what? I'm on page 11 already!
So... okay.
Go on.
Say it to my face - exactly what you're thinking.
Which is probably something like, "That's not much for years of work."
"Page 11? That's not very good."
"Eleven pages? I could do better than that."
"A turtle could do better than that."
Yes, it's true. Page 11 is not very far into a book. It's going to take a loooong time to finish. A year, to be exact.
But I will finish, I do know that. And in a year, I will have a book under my belt.
When I started looking for images to use as the heading for this post, I was thinking seriously about a turtle, because a turtle is a great symbol for slow and steady winning the race. We all recognize this guy from the Aesop’s Fable story, right?
Yeah, yeah, turtles.
But really, a better image is ducks. This guy:
There’s an expression I hadn’t heard before a few years ago, and it sums up my strategy for getting this book DONE, and that is: "Nibbled to death by ducks."
What does it mean? Well, look at that duck. He's pretty cute, right? That beak totally doesn’t mean business. He looks like a lightweight for sure. If you let him nibble at you, he wouldn’t do much damage. Unless he kept nibbling. Just kept nibbling and nibbling and nibbling…
Well, okay, that’s getting a little gross. My point being, one nibble by one duck doesn’t do much damage, but
