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October 18th, 2025 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akjeFinally finished the first draft of my WIP after more than nine months! Which is fair; if it were a baby it would be born now. Started this thing at the beginning of January, and okay, now comes the loooooong process of editing, but still...
Read an essay by Sue Monk Kidd yesterday where she admits she too is a slow writer, although she can get into flow states where she loses track of time and writes for long stretches. I've never been able to do that. For one thing, I'm frequently interrupted by others and their pets, and every interruption means a loss of at least twenty minutes wasted while I try to regain my focus.
But she takes three years to write each book, so I feel a little better, although her output is likely way better than mine. I've never read one of her books, but The Secret Life of Bees is on my wishlist. I assume her writing's way better than mine. No traditional publisher has ever wanted to publish me, and never will since I have no followers and no possibility of getting any. (╯︵╰,)
Now, I'm the opposite. I begin every book thinking This is easy! But as time goes on I think Omg why in the name of Bullwinkle's bollocks did I ever believe I could write a book?! This is so freaking hard!
Read an essay by Sue Monk Kidd yesterday where she admits she too is a slow writer, although she can get into flow states where she loses track of time and writes for long stretches. I've never been able to do that. For one thing, I'm frequently interrupted by others and their pets, and every interruption means a loss of at least twenty minutes wasted while I try to regain my focus.
But she takes three years to write each book, so I feel a little better, although her output is likely way better than mine. I've never read one of her books, but The Secret Life of Bees is on my wishlist. I assume her writing's way better than mine. No traditional publisher has ever wanted to publish me, and never will since I have no followers and no possibility of getting any. (╯︵╰,)
❝ I average three plus years of writing per book, intense years of constant striving. In the beginning, writing the book has an air of impossibility about it. I wonder if I can pull it off. Slowly, slowly, it starts to emerge. I begin to feel it in my body, this little dawning. Somehow I write all the way to the final page.❞
Now, I'm the opposite. I begin every book thinking This is easy! But as time goes on I think Omg why in the name of Bullwinkle's bollocks did I ever believe I could write a book?! This is so freaking hard!