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After failing to write a novel multiple times, I'm convinced that the battle is mainly psychological--at least for the first draft anyways. I thought this thread might be a good way to acknowledge my own accomplishments and get feedback.
Anyway I just broke 46, 000 words for the story I'm working on now. I'm trying to get in the area of 75,000 to 80,000. Not for any particular reason but because I read that this falls in the range of what a first time author is usually excepted to have written. For a couple of months prior, I was not writing at all. This was partly because I was discouraged, facing existential writer questions (why even bother? whose going to read this? etc), school, and other personal issues. It also could've been I was just bored with the novel, but since I refused to work on anything else, I just ended up not writing at all. Now that I broke that barrier, I'm starting to get writing back into my routine and I honestly feel a lot better about it now. Writing is my passion and its important to spend time on things you feel strongly about.
My strategy for when I hit creative walls (because I don't write outlines. I'm just not a very organized writer.) is to basically add something that makes everything change. I don't know if its actually going to work or not. I know for a fact that I'm going to have to edit and completely alter a lot when I hit the re-writing stage. But its more important for me right now to finish. I really try not to go back and edit anything.
I'll report back in at 55,000. /salute
Anyway I just broke 46, 000 words for the story I'm working on now. I'm trying to get in the area of 75,000 to 80,000. Not for any particular reason but because I read that this falls in the range of what a first time author is usually excepted to have written. For a couple of months prior, I was not writing at all. This was partly because I was discouraged, facing existential writer questions (why even bother? whose going to read this? etc), school, and other personal issues. It also could've been I was just bored with the novel, but since I refused to work on anything else, I just ended up not writing at all. Now that I broke that barrier, I'm starting to get writing back into my routine and I honestly feel a lot better about it now. Writing is my passion and its important to spend time on things you feel strongly about.
My strategy for when I hit creative walls (because I don't write outlines. I'm just not a very organized writer.) is to basically add something that makes everything change. I don't know if its actually going to work or not. I know for a fact that I'm going to have to edit and completely alter a lot when I hit the re-writing stage. But its more important for me right now to finish. I really try not to go back and edit anything.
I'll report back in at 55,000. /salute