I'm still pretty well worn out from National--I slept 14 hours in the last 24, and I'm still not caught up--so no lengthy screed here, but I wanted to say something while I was thinking about it.
Quite a few people at National thanked me for all my hard work on workshops this past year. I think I wigged a few of them out by saying I didn't work hard. The thing is, I'm not sure "hard work" means the same thing to me that it does to everyone else.
To me, hard work is anything I don't want to do, anything I find unrewarding or unpleasant. Chairing the workshop committee wasn't any of that. It was something I chose to do because I thought it would be one of my favorite things, a combination of big picture and important detail (it was) and because I thought it would be rewarding (it absolutely was).
Did I put a lot of time and effort into chairing the committee? Absolutely. Did it demand a lot from me in terms of time and focus? Definitely. But it wasn't hard work because I loved doing it.
So that's the deal: if I love doing it, it's not hard work. It can be demanding, frustrating, challenging, exhausting...but it won't be hard.
4 comments:
Katy, the workshops ran so well. Beautifully! It may not have been hard work for you but I bet it was a lot of work, and it paid off for a full 2200 women. Thank you!
- Brooke from JCW
What a very Katy-ish thing to say.
The time and care you put into the workshops made a lot of people happy. Work or not, whatever you choose to call it, you gave of yourself, and that's a gift.
((((hugs))))
Kim
Katy,
I didn't attend, but everything I've heard (and that's been a lot!) about the conference has been wonderful! Great job!
pattie
Pocono-Lehigh Romance Writers
HHRW
CLWOW
Thank you all--I really did have a lot of fun doing it. (Though I won't deny I'm glad it's over...)
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