Last week I started to write that nomination support letter for my boxing coach in Canada, Olympian Silver medalist. I started as in I sat down to brainstorm this and that but never really wrote any full sentences.
Today I took another attempt.
I was told it was to be 250 words.
I had convinced myself that I'd write it from start to finish today so I sat down, popped up the laptop, turned on some brain-energizing beats, and opened up a fresh, new Word file.
I was ready.
I was writing.
And then I stopped to do a word count... exactly 1,000 words... oh gosh.
And then I read the actual award submission write-up details,... it stated it had to be under 200 words.
But how could I go from 1,000 words to under 200 when there was just so much I thought appropriate to share. The letter had to be about how Egerton influenced my life and there was no way on God's green Earth that I could possibly ever sum it up in such a short write.
...so that's how I started my letter.
"How do I even begin to shed light on a man who has made such a positive impact on me that has had a life-changing, unimaginable domino effect..."
And from that one sentence I scrapped everything else I had written and started completely fresh. When I finished I did a word count, 253 words, so that's when I called in Skittles to help me nit pick and cut out 53 words.
Mission accomplished.
Not a very interesting posting for today, fair enough, but this was what I worked on for a good chunk of my day and I'm glad I finally conquered it. In a future posting I'll share it but due to the fact I have a large readership on my homepage and am not quite sure who reads it, I rather Egerton hear my letter first than simply someone here. I'm sure you understand.... and if not, well, that's your problem not mine.
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