Early Resolution

Last night I was reading Annie Lamott's Bird By Bird. I bought it at a used book store in Grass Valley (I have not been in Grass Valley since 2006!) and it has been my in-between reading ever since. I am generally a fiction reader. Having been read to at bed time by my parents long past a reasonable age, I am sort of addicted to a story before I drift off. But when I am in between novels, waiting for them to travel between libraries, I pick up Annie. She is so funny and real and encouraging, but I generally don't follow her advice, opting instead of sitting down and writing my 300 words a day to daydream about how much everyone will love me when my brilliant novel is a bestseller. But last night I read the chapter about why one should write. Her reasons were a million times more inspiring than promises of fame, fortune and validation (which, by the way, are almost certain not to happen). So, in preparation for the day when my aged tv no longer transmits broadcast signals, I am going to try each afternoon when I get home from work, instead of lying there letting crumbs of one kind or another cover my couch and my person while I watch celebrities promote their latest endeavors and compare pictures of their dogs and children, to sit down and write, in case there is something important to me (and possibly one or two other people on earth) waiting to be written. From time to time these attempts could show up here.
If you haven't read the book, I highly recommend it, as most of her advice is well applied to any pursuit in life.