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This book will be useless to you if you don’t do the exercises.
Right now what’s important is getting it down. It doesn’t have to be perfect. In fact, it won’t be perfect. The goal here is to finish the scene. If it helps, I want you to consider it this way. When you’ve completed your manuscript, there is every possibility that the entire chapter you’re about to write could be cut or re-written from scratch. If that becomes necessary, all the time you spent agonizing over specific words, or correcting grammar and spelling, is completely wasted. If you can just power through without stopping, you’ll end up with a complete scene, and you can choose to both
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Congratulations! If you’ve made it this far you’ve completed a fist full of micro-sprints and your first full sprint. That’s assuming you’re doing the exercises. You are doing the exercises, right? If you aren’t, here…have some guilt.
Where do you want to be in a year? The time is going to pass anyway.
You need to set realistic goals that won’t kill you, and will keep writing FUN. This is critical. If you stop enjoying writing, it may as well be any other job you’ve hated in your life.
