Chasing My Tale

I’m trying to make sure I write everyday. Somedays I am a complete failure, somedays I do quite well. This morning I wrote over a thousand words but yesterday I barely wrote seven hundred. I am so close to the end of the fifth WDB novel. ‘Backstabbers & Believers’ now. I am ready to draw this one to a close. I am always ready by this point in the game. It’s not that I dislike the story, or even grow tired of it. After months working in the same department I just get to wanting to have a break maybe try another position.

There is also my Muse – by this point I am either chasing a short story, or just finishing one, so I can get back to the novel. In this��case, she has given me what I need to start the next novel. So inside me, the sixth book is growing,the idea getting traction, and the images intruding.

I need to make sure the ending is right, so I can’t really afford to be distracted and yet… So I am trying to be a firm but understanding boss to myself. I must finish that novel – there is a dead line – and it is the point where the next novel leaps out, onto the screen, without sparing a glance at the ‘old’ novel.

Working for The Man can be tough – but working for That Woman….

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