Dealing With Uncertainty is Hard

But you must. All writers and creatives do.

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I’m on jury duty.

I’m to report at 8 AM for two days running. And from there I have no idea what will happen.

Will I get excused early, as I have in the past? Will I actually get to sit on a trial?

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I’ve got appointments lined up the rest of the week. I’ve got a class to take and a class to teach. Places to go, people to see. Will I be available for them? I don’t know.

Uncertainty.

I hate it. I want control. I want to know what is going to happen next, how it is going to happen, and exactly when.

But here’s the deal. We think we control our lives. We think we know what’s going to happen. But things can change in a nanosecond. I’ve had that experience and I’m sure you have, too.

Maybe this is why some of us go into fiction writing — because we create world in which we control what happens. But even with that, we creatives experience uncertainty.