Remember when we discussed making it a habit of writing 500 words per day for seven days culminating with 3500 words at the end of the week. We decided that this exercise would not be re-read or edited in that week, it was pure writing. 

That exercise netted me a 9598 word framework for my murder mystery. Those words still have not been edited, but they have been re-read, and boy do they need some work. This story is the novel I will be working on, and finishing in 2021.

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You can do this too, set an intention to write a
selected number of words per day. Set a number of words that is comfortable for you. 

Don’t edit or read for a week. Only once you meet your quota, do a functional edit, just to make sure you’re on the right track, and then start again. 

Procrastination is a destroying rut to get into, and constant re-reading and editing will lead you along that same procrastinating track. 

Perfection is not needed until the tale is told. You can spend millions of wasted hours changing a word here, and a word there, only to find it made no difference in the long run. 

Once you get started and especially if you hit a few roadblocks, the best tool for you is your fellow writers. Writing Buddies, or join a Writer's Group in your area, online writing chats.

The NaMoWriMo Challenge is a excellent platform for exploring your ideas. The Challenge runs for the whole month of November each year.  

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Challenge 2021 will be a chance to explore your characters or plot in greater detail, and discuss them with other like minded writers. 

Writing can be a very isolating experience, formulating plots, building believable characters; hours go by without talking to a living person. 

Your characters become your family, your children take on new names, and the plot, the ever increasing plot becomes your address, your living space is transformed to a world of fantasy, a castle ringed by a mighty forest, and charging crusaders. 

Good luck with your own short stories, novels, and blogs over the coming weeks. 

 

I'll be continuing to work on my first ever novel, and I’ll keep you posted with the progress. 

 As I say, don’t wait for the right time to write, start today.

Let me know how you're going with your own writing project.