Another of my odd creations. But hey, it might help somebody.
The Twelve Steps of Chickens Anonymous
- We admitted we were powerless over chicken-ism–that our unsubmitted manuscripts had become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Publisher greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our careers over to the care of our muse as we understood him/her/them/the voices.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of the viability of our ‘old’ writing while cowering under the desk.
- Admitted to our computers, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our chicken-ness.
- Were entirely ready to edit these defects of character.
- Humbly attempted to submit manuscripts despite chicken-ism, and then continue onward.
- Made a list of all characters we had harmed, and became willing to make happy (or at least appropriate) endings for them all.
- Made direct amends to such characters wherever possible, except when to do so would fry our brains or make our fingers fall off.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were slacking promptly admitted it.
- Sought through meditation and cog-knitting to improve our conscious contact with our characters as we understood them, praying only for knowledge of their will for the book and the energy to type it out.
- Having had a creative awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to chickens everywhere, and to practice these principles in all our manuscripts.
Send me an email to join. I promise to help nag you and throw steps at you when needed. Get your virtual kick-in-the-motivation here, fellow writers!