My #2 child is playing Freshman football. And at this point it’s irking me. Since he started playing in 7th grade, he’s been a quarterback. Three games ago he got the snot beat out of him in a game–I mean he was wobbling on his knees and all that. Afterwards, the coach made this *huge* (to my kid anyway) scene in the locker room afterwards and pulled him as QB–didn’t say he wasn’t gonna play him, still wanted him to start and all that jazz, but they were going to go with a running QB and my kid’s not as fast as the other dude.
To say my kid was pissed was an understatement and we spent hours after talking to him. Once we finally convinced him it wasn’t a bad thing it was time for another day and another practice. That entire week the coach used him as a receiver and on the kick-off teams. Cut to then next game. Guess who they put back in as QB… Yep my kid—who hadn’t practiced it all week. Same thing the next game too. And yesterday he informs me, the game this week… he’s starting QB.
None of us are looking forward to that game—and let me just say, he’s not a bad QB(and sure, I am biased, but he is good), they just have a lousy line, no one to protect him and the receivers aren’t catching. But whatevs we’ll stick it out, ’cause he’s not a quitter.
It made me think if a couple of books I’m working on (s’okay, when does stuff not, right?!?) I have labored over books that aren’t working and there are times when I know I need to get in there and change things up to make it flow better. And then there are times when I’m getting the snot beat outta me mentally but I keep chugging through. I guess maybe there are times when you need to try and stick it out to get to the end—not be a quitter—but there’s got to be times when you know it’s not working and not gonna work so you have to move around your story ( I would never *completely* give up on a story—the wonderful thing about computer storage and externals and all that, you can keep stuff and come back to it…).
What are you like? The stick it out ’til the end or the change it up when needed? Or maybe a little bit of both.
Between Freshman football on the brain and the Texas Rangers (GO RANGERS!! WOOT!) all I can think of lately is sports so forgive the sports analogy.
…oh and, on the October challenge, I have written every day. I don’t think I hit the goal every day this last week, but I am still on track thanks to the days when I wrote *way* over.
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