How I keep writing a book

How I keep writing a book

Settling down into a solid word count – which I take to be anything over forty thousand words – feels, at first, a bit like swimming in a lake with no lifeguard on duty and unknown depths below – you mean, I’m really doing this, I’m still swimming? Wow, that’s a bit….scary.

How I keep writing a book is a big part of the challenge. But since we can only write one word at a time, it doesn’t have to be scary. Just like learning a new swimming stroke, writing short piec...