Today’s gonna be good

Oh, hi friends!

Today’s going to be a good day.

Maybe it’s not going to be a big good day, one that you’ll remember for months.

And maybe it’ll be flecked with some less-than-good moments.

Actually, maybe it’ll be more rollercoaster good than a straight climb upward.

But it’s gonna be good — in some tiny or big or confusing or colorful way. Mmhmm. I know it is.

“My book hadn’t become a bestseller, received a rave (or any) review in the New York Times, or landed me my ever-since-girlhood fantasy interview with Terry Gross. I judged myself for the brass rings I hadn’t grabbed. As much as my memoir mattered to me, to the rest of the world it was just another book.”

I loved this nuanced essay by Jessica Berger Gross about post-publication depression. Reminded me of this Smarter Living piece earlier in the year about what happens after accomplishing something great, and after I have my own ~feelings~ about nearing the end of projects.

But there’s more: “Here’s what I wish I’d known, and what my friend was trying to tell me: Publishing a book is a singular, special, and exhilarating experience that should be savored. But a book, no matter how best-selling or how acclaimed, no matter how much it moves readers, is not going to bring complete fulfillment, validation, or inner peace. So don’t be so hard on yourself, or put quite so much pressure on publication.”

And then she says the answer to all these feelings is, of course, to start writing something new.

Today my fake-link for you is one. Maybe for you that means keeping only one tab open in Chrome at a time. Maybe it means focusing on finishing a single step of your project. Maybe it means writing that one email you’ve been putting off. One ain’t the loneliest number after all.

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Thanks, as always, for reading.

Love, Kara