Thanksgiving is a time to take (turkey?) stock of the blessings that writers have:

• Loving to learn, read, write, serve your readers, and share your passions
• Stringing words together like lights that enlighten your readers
• Knowing that you’re doing what you were born to do
• Having literary and publishing goals that motivate you to achieve them
• Having ideas to write about
• Writing what people want to read
• Producing work that has social value
• Writing work you can resell in other forms, media, and countries
• Having technology to  help you create, share, promote, and profit from your work
• Experimenting with new ways to express your ideas
• Being supported by your friends and family
• Having a community of early readers
• Having fans who love what you write
• Being liked and respected by authors you admire
• Having an agent, editor, publisher, and fans who champion your work
• Finding new ways to Monetize your work
• Having a community of collaborators to help you
• Maintaining a balance between work, home, and leisure
• Earning enough income to support your writing habit
• Not having everything you want
• Having challenges that bring out the best in you
• Being so energized by your work and your readers that you wake up every day eager to write
• Living in a home and community that cherish creativity
• Being part of  a business which is a labor of love

Then of course, on Friday, there are turkey sandwiches on dill rye with mayo and pepper…

 I hope you’ll share these blessings and let me know which ones I left out.

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