It's a week later and I am ashamed to say I have not moved any further on with the novel. Consequently I am about 20,000 words behind!! What happened? Life!! It all started off so well!!
Neil Gaiman has sent us participants a small pep talk in which he says the feeling of wanting to give up is quite common. That's how novels get written, he says. You write. That's the hard bit that nobody sees. You write on the good days and you write on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward or you die. Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
I need to go off now and find a word or two...
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