Real Wannabees
What do you think separates the writers from the wannabes?
Real wannabees have the inner toughness, the go-to-itiveness, the I'm-here-and-not-there guts and determination to just want to be what they are not at all.
For a real wannabee, that's enough of an achievement, and being satisfied with that is a start, even without going anywhere at all, or even getting started going anywhere. Because if you have the inner
"I've-got-what-it-takes" to face the fact that you are more than happy to have gotten over not having started anything much...well then, there you are.
For a real wannabee, just going backward for a few days in time is a kind of progress: "My God!" he wants to exclaim, "This really is last Wednesday and I still haven't done a thing. I fact, I haven't even done what I did do because, that was Last Thursday. Well, I'm not disappointed because Thursday is tomorrow."
But he doesn't say that. Instead he wonders: "What if tomorrow is Tuesday?"
Then he thinks he will be forced to imagine himself saying: "Good grief, now its the Tuesday before last Wednesday. This is getting troublesome. At this rate it will take me three days to get to the week before last."
That's when you realize that all you have left is the guts to get up again and hope you are not traveling steadily backward in time.