The Check-In
Welcome to THE CHECK-IN, where you can get a sneak peek into my writing progress every week! Read on to find out what I’m working on and how things are progressing in my world.
Here’s the breakdown:
Lonely is the Night – Changed up how I’ve been attacking this draft and the writing came much easier. The problem the past week was I had several events and some life stuff that took precedence over writing time. But! This is the beginning of my two week writing “retreat” across the water in the Seattle area and I have high hopes for the amount of progress I’ll be making on this draft. Let’s see if I can get this sucker finished!Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch… – This story isn’t going away, but I’m going to be focusing pretty exclusive on Lonely over the next two weeks, just because I want to get that draft done so frickin’ badly. I am tired of having it hanging over my head! So I’m almost using Meanwhile as the carrot at the end of a stick. Once I finish Lonely, I get to work on this. Yay!Writing is hard. It’s about finding the time, and when there’s no time to find, making the time, and then making the best use of that time once you’ve found and/or carved it out for yourself. It’s constantly reevaluating what’s working and what isn’t in your process and fighting your own demons to get words out onto the page. It’s hard. It’s also what I love to do. I’m under no illusion that I have some kind of special power that other people don’t have. I think I’m just more stubborn, more contrary, maybe. It’s easier, more sensible to walk away from the work when it gets hard than to sit and struggle with it. But if you do that, if you walk away — you’ll never get the book written.
LESSON OF THE WEEK: HARD THINGS ARE WORTH DOING.
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