You Don't Give Up

In Lamott's book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life she says:

"I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

This particular quote is meaningful to me today because of conversations I keep having in my head. I tell myself to go write, just go write like you planned. But what if I end up with all this writing that nobody wants to publish? Ever? Then I say so what, so then I have a bunch of stuff that I wrote. Let me just stick to the simple plan: Write every day. The alternative is to feel bad for the rest of my life because I didn't try my hand at the thing I've always wanted to do.

Doing nothing is definitely the wrong track. This quote makes me think I'm on the right track.