{"id":5088,"date":"2007-02-26T17:04:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T17:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shilohwalker.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/26\/choice-versus-non-choice\/"},"modified":"2007-02-26T17:04:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T17:04:26","slug":"choice-versus-non-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2007\/02\/choice-versus-non-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Choice versus Non-Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choice&#8230;something that you make a conscious decision about, like what color to dye your hair or whether or not you should call in sick.<\/p>\n<p>Non-choice&#8230;something that is a fact, something that simply <em>is<\/em> for you, like you were born a blonde.\u00a0 Although being born a blonde doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;ll stay one.\u00a0 ;o)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what got me to thinking about choices.\u00a0 Could have been an interesting <strike>rant <\/strike>post at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ventclub.blogspot.com\/\">Vent Club<\/a>\u00a0or it might have been something the preacher said yesterday at church.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll all make choices.\u00a0 We all have non-choices in our life that sometimes affects these choices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We can always use the hair color for an example.\u00a0 I was born a blonde, hair got darker as I got older and now, somewhere under the red, I think it&#8217;s a medium brown.\u00a0 For some reason, I choose to dye it red.\u00a0 I like the red.\u00a0 Red is the choice, brown is the non-choice.\u00a0 Or I&#8217;m debating on whether or not to get Lasix, because I was born with crappy eyesight.\u00a0 A choice to hopefully repair a non-choice.<\/p>\n<p>Or yesterday was Sunday so I went to church with my kids. That was a choice. I went to church because of a non-choice, my belief in God.\u00a0 Some people say believing in God is a choice, you can do it, or not do it.\u00a0 Faith is not really a choice with me.\u00a0 It simply <em>is.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Writing is another non-choice.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t choose to write.\u00a0 It&#8217;s something I have to do because the stories that play out in my head will drive me batty if I don&#8217;t.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t ask for the stories in my head, not that I&#8217;m complaining.\u00a0 I like them.\u00a0 They keep me company. The choices I&#8217;ve made regarding writing~I chose to make an attempt to get published. I wanted it.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have to have it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My love for my family is a non-choice.\u00a0 It simply is.\u00a0 I love my husband and have for more than half my life.\u00a0 We made the choice to have kids and share that love.<\/p>\n<p>So why on earth am I writing this rambling post on choices versus non-choices&#8230;other than I chose to?\u00a0 ;o&gt;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I dunno&#8230; it could have been that post at Vent Club, an author angry over a perceived lack of interest in help her promote her book or it could be the various complaints we see from authors who aren&#8217;t happy with a review, from readers who aren&#8217;t happy with the direction a series is going in, or a million other things.\u00a0 My mind doesn&#8217;t exactly work in the linear mode.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The author at Vent Club, well, she made the choice to pursue publishing.\u00a0If she banked on one publisher because she had publicity hopes but didn&#8217;t actually investigate and\/or get in writing how much help she&#8217;d have from the publisher, that was a mistake on her part.\u00a0 There could be a lesson worth learning there could influence future choices.\u00a0She could start sending out the press kits on her own, contacting magazines, local papers, etc~a practical choice.\u00a0 Or she could sit and steam.\u00a0 Another choice.\u00a0 One of the non-choices here is that authors face a lot of frustrating situations.\u00a0 Bad covers, poor sales, etc-some things that we can&#8217;t really do much about.\u00a0 So if you&#8217;re in a situation you can actually do something about&#8230; do it and save the frustation for something else.<\/p>\n<p>With reviews, the author makes the choice to read them.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t like them&#8230;don&#8217;t read them. 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