Writing and the Lego Tower?

Building Something Out of Nothing*In Stan Lee's voice* Greetings true believers! I am back from my two day break due to the dreaded day job, but work is work and c'est la vie, no? But today I wanted to readdress something, (for my benefit not yours) and that is consistency! I keep hearing on the facebook about people having trouble with muses and scenes coming to them, and then they *gasps* take breaks from writing. It's all momentum, a body in motion stays in motion people! The more you write, even if it's a hundred words one day, is the closer you get! It's building your novel! Taking breaks does one thing, it guarantees your muse to take breaks too! You want it to show up, THEN YOU SHOW UP! You cannot come to the page lightly people! Go in expecting to write, creativity begets creativity, that's why I blog now i realize.

I know no one reads these, I have no comments, blah whatever. But I do write them! Get it? This is a warm up, if I can do this, then I can write. No excuses, this all might be crap, but it's something and that's better than nothing right?! You can have a crappy book done through many sluggish brain dead days, or you can have a whole lot of empty pages. But remember this, you can't edit and improve a novel that's not there, so write it! I'm dreading going back to my novel again, even knowing all this, Je suis hypocrite lol. But I know all I have to do is type the next word, any word when I start and....the rest will follow. Soon there will be paragraphs, pages being typed. I will hit the point where I'll be hungry but so in the zone I'll be furious to leave the keyboard.

All you have to do is start!!!!

Don't believe me, turn on your bathtub just to the point where it dribbles and leave a bucket there, drop after drop, it will eventually fill won't it. It ain't magic, it's persistence and hard work. The best authors are like the best of any medium, they aren't necessarily the best. They are the hardest working, there will always be better authors, actors, singers, dancers, painters and more out there. First of all don't compare or compete, second, most of them never make it because they quit. They can't keep going forwards, taking the hits, grinding away to do the work. It doesn't matter how bad you are now, the only way you'll move forwards, get better and succeed is by continuing to write. Negative people will grind you down, but only at the surface if you let them, they're toughening you up, chipping only your veneer. If you ignore them, keep writing, keep building your novels and word count, you'll simultaneously be polishing yourself up.

Drop. By. Drop.
That's how it's done!

Might not mean much from an indie nobody like me, but im only an indie at the moment! I refuse to let other people stop me from writing. I mean how dare they!? Theyre not the ones putting the sweat blood and tears into my novels, even if they are an author, they didnt write MY novels for me. they're opinions are worthless. they cant physically make me or you stop and they have no right! what happens if a caged dog barks at you? you keep on walking, just like a race. step after step is how you build and finish your novel

Take the first step if youre reading this. open up your novel and pop out that first and next word. the rest will come, i guarantee it. If thats too much. start a blog and ramble nonsense like i do here. itll warm you up!

its like building a tower out of legos, one brick at a time, stacking on top of each other. just pick one to start with, the next will stick to that and so on. just start, itll come and stick!

happy writing