Welcome to THE CHECK-IN, where you can get a sneak peek into my writing progress every week! Read on to find out what I’m working on and how things are progressing in my world.
Here’s the breakdown:
- Lonely is the Night – What’s this?? Progress?? Minor, incremental, but definitely there progress?? WHAT?! Yes indeed, folks, I got some time to do some actual, honest-to-God writing in the past week and I took advantage of it. I’m going to get this damn draft done, brick by brick, sentence by sentence, if it’s the last thing I ever do. I don’t want to set myself up to eat my own words, but I think (looking forward at what I have on my to-do list this week) that I may get even more writing done in the next seven days. We shall see! But could I get this draft to the 60k mark? It’s possible!
The thing that’s been getting in the way of my writing this week more than anything else hasn’t been lack of time – it’s been fear. I haven’t written more than a few hundred words at a time in such a long time…I worry I can’t do it anymore, you know? That I’ve forgotten how to do it, or lost the spark. I don’t want to fail. But the only way to deal with such fears is to face them head on, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do. And will continue to do. I’m a writer – writing is part of the job description, so there’s nothing to it but to do it!
LESSON OF THE WEEK: FACE YOUR FEARS HEAD ON AND DON’T FLINCH!