“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
Life loves to toss out challenges! No matter what career path you’re on, you’ve surely bumped into both anticpated obstacles and outright surprises.
When I’m writing (or reading) alpha female characters, I love the boldness with which they tackle every obstacle that gets tossed their way. They seem to know what they want and even if that initial goal changes or morphs, they continue with that admirable drive to attain it.
Asimov is right, life’s difficulities do seem to vaporize in the face of bold action. It’s empowering to read and write an alpha female heroine who boldly charges into their adventures, despite the risks.
A writer with the goals of being published cannot rest in a corner at the end of the day and hope the challenges of the publishing world go away or smooth out.
And knowing readers love to worry their way through a book, I suppose it makes an odd sort of sense for even the most alpha female author to have a few worries on the path to publication.
But it takes alpha female determination and dedication to overcome the obstacles and prevail over circumstance.
When a writer (or anyone) focuses on the problem or difficulty, rather than the solution, the difficulty becomes bigger than it is. It becomes so big, in fact, it blurs our vision of the precious goal hovering just beyond it.
Alpha female characters teach me a lot. Yes I know my heroines are fictional, but I wouldn’t spend all those hours with them in the story if I didn’t like them.
Jaden Michaels (of Justice Incarnate) is an alpha female person I would love to have on my team – and in a way, when I play with characters from her world, she is on my team and provides a solid example of daring, consideration, and definitive action.
Debating and overanalyzing a problem will not fix it. Difficulties require action if we want to get around them to realize our goal or dream. Better to assess and then move forward with boldness – to take alpha female action.
Will there be mistakes? Surely. But the alpha females of my acquaintance learn from all their experiences and move on with continued boldness and determination, with their eyes on the prize they’ve declared they cannot live without.
Live the adventure!
