Just wrote the first 1000 words of a brand new book. I have been procrastinating about starting. It is just so darned scary. But fun. You know that moment when you are riding the roller coaster and it is cranking up that first looong incline, preparatory to that drop that sends your stomach into your mouth? Scary fun, like that…
So many new characters, a new setting, even a new era to bring to life! I won’t really feel good until I have at least three or four chapters under my belt, and then I might start to relax a little. With me I always feel as though everything I have accomplished so far has been due to luck and I fully expect the bottom to drop out at any moment.
I have no idea how successful I will have to be at writing before I start to believe in myself. Kind of silly, I suppose.
What I am listening to: Analogue/ a-ha
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June 19, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Yay!
Listen, if anyone is writing crap right now it’s me. I have no idea where this story’s going. And my writing is really bad.
But there’s one thing I did that’s really helping me, and that’s putting my word counter on my blog. Updating it every day had giving me a lot of motivation to write even if it’s just a little bit.
I’m just going to write it out, see what the best ideas and characters are, then maybe rewrite it with a purpose.
June 19, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Where did you get the word counter from?
June 20, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I see the question, but you didn’t share the answer. How hard was it to do?
Susan
sshay.wordpress.com
June 20, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Not that hard. You have to add some HTML to a text widget box. Do you want me to post it?
June 20, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Congrats and good luck. Maybe someday I can say I blogged you way back when… LOL
June 20, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Hey thank you jesseybean. I am probably never going to make it to the big show, but I am pretty happy with everything I have accomplished so far.
June 28, 2008 at 1:49 am
Yes, please post it!
Susan
June 28, 2008 at 9:43 am
I will do a blog posting with instructions!