chronicled & illustrated

This has to be a quick post. I’ve got a publishing meeting to go to and by the time I get back, this post might not be dated the 19th but the 20th. So, here’s the preliminary post which I hope to pay more attention to later. Why do I care? It’s the magic of signing up and saying: I’m going to post every day. It works to motivate—even when that motivation leads you to do something kind of silly. Like posting quickly when you don’t have time to think about what you want to write. Maybe it’s all just run-off from NaNoWriMo. Write, write, write; don’t think!

It’s been a good few nano-days. My writing’s on a roll and that is a very good feeling. It’s also something I want to remember for next time. It takes not only time but effort to get a novel to a point that it’s clipping along at a steady pace. In order to get anything big, unwieldy and complicated rolling, it takes up-front preparation. That’s what those painful days in and around the end of the first week and beginning of the second (okay, all of the second!) are all about. You just have to keep at it, get through those times and do not EVER let it stop you!

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