A is for Attitude & Altitude

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“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude”

Zig Ziglar

I've been hanging around the blog-o-sphere for quite a while now and one thing I hear over and over again is how hard it is to get published. How unfair the system is, how agents or editors or publishers take advantage of the writer and yadda, yadda, yadda.  There's a never ending list of things writer's whine about.  Just this week, one writer blew up about what she thought was an unfair review. 

I don't know about you, but I really don't want to be around people like that.  They are having such a wonderful time being miserable, they make everyone having a wonderful time miserable.  Or something like that.  Anyway, all that to say, they aren't fun to be around.

I've always heard you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.  And it's true.  Ask politely and you'll get a totally different response than if you'd whined and complained.   Even if the answer is still no, it'll be given in a different attitude.

But, back to the publishing business.  Yes, it's hard.  Yes, it may seem unfair when celebrities who can't put three words together so they make sense get a huge advance for a children's book. 

You have the choice as to how you will react though.  You have the choice in your attitude.  You can either whine and complain or suck it up and keep up the good fight.

I'm getting my boxing gloves on...what about you?