Blogger just ate my blog. Crap.
What did I say? Oh, yeah, I didn't write much yesterday, and this is the time we find out if I can REALLY do this novel thing, and I really hope I can because I *want* to read this book because I think it will be a fun read.
Only, I used a few more words.
The whiny story of slogging through writing my first novel.
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I hate when that happens -- you do have the auto save on? And tried the recover old post?
Now --
see this spinning disk? Follow the sound of my voice as you get very, very sleepy. Good -- now internalize this thought: I will write that novel, I will write that novel, I will write that novel. Okay, you can wake up now.
Even five minutes is progress: don't be too hard on yourself, but persist. I got in an hour late last night. Only a couple of pages, but it was something. It accrues.
I know how hard it is for you to find time, but the more it gets to be a habit, the better. You have to jones for it. John Irving once wrote, "You have to get obsessed and stay obsessed." Stay obsessed!
Ooh -- here's an even better one:
http://www.chosenreality.com/warpzone/opticals/hypno.gif
Thanks, coach! You're an inspiration to me, and I'm not like sucking up or kidding. I told Birdie this morning I need to find an hour Real Soon (like this weekend) to do some serious work on [insert eventual title] to both catch up and get my juices going again.
It seems to be percolating nicely, though. I'll try to post something more specific about my ideas tomorrow....duh...Monday.
Right now, though, I'm going up to 296 - YEA - so I'm going to add some words that will have to be re-arranged later but they will exist to BE arranged.
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