Among the Doldrums

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Even before the bowline is set adrift to release the ship, the captain has long since charted his course. So maybe the nautical metaphor is not the best choice. But I have chosen to take the Author-Ship to sea and find my course on the way. Foolhardy, m'lads? To be sure. But the adventure is there. I seek opportunity before skill with the hope that both will arrive.

I have learned on this adventure so far that it is actually possible to be close to shore, still seeking the tools to chart a course, and enter into the dreaded doldrums. Time to break out the boats and row the Author-Ship onward with raw motivation and strenuous pulls at the oars. But this is not a time to be called floundering; it is a time to rejoice for the strength and desire to put the oar to water for one more pull. The Author-Ship may not have a wake, nor even the long boat a wake, but the oars do, so pull we must.

The doldrums are that I have yet to determine the logs to read, the work of the day calls too much of my attention. Pull! But the oar's wake has produced the fact that I have progressed to within one step of getting something self-published. Pull! And another oar's wake has opened the lines of communication with potential publishers. Pull! And another oar's wake has brought me into a networking contact to a local insider in the publishing business. Pull! The official copyright has been delivered.

Do my eyes deceive me, or has the uncharted course brought us a little farther from shore?

Pull!