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“Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness.” -Steven Saylor My Life…
I pushed through. I didn’t used to be able to do this. Once I was in a rut, it stayed that way- for a really, really, really long time. But today, I pushed through. Estella spoke and I listened. Word count? Over Sixty Six Thousand Words. I imagine a little less than ten thousand words and I’ll be done. Maybe even a lot less. I’m in the final chapters. And… GO…
I’m in a rut. This happens to me every few months. It’s the reason I have taken so long completing this book. I started this book about three and a half years ago. It may seem like it shouldn’t take very long to write a book. I mean, I know the characters well, I know what I want to accomplish with them. Why is it taking so long? The answer? I get in ruts. Obnoxious ruts. I spend months not writing. I’ve been pretty good about it this time around. I’…
Writing a novel has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I am now over 61,000 words into my young adult novel that I started back when I was nineteen, almost twenty. I was in a loveless relationship and one day these characters became the people I loved and cared about. I dreamt them up to escape the life that I was living. I felt trapped, like I was watching my life from the outside and I would scream at myself to get out (now!) but I wasn’t listening. I was too wrapped up in…
