Not a terribly productive day, but that’s okay. It’s Sunday and we had a number of technical problems with the sound card et al. Should all be ironed out now and most daily notes will be about five minutes or so, not the longer catch up ones.

Biggest problem new writers have is one of those paradoxes – not taking it seriously enough and taking it too seriously. The cure for both is time and words under the belt. If you don’t make time for your writing and your work – if you don’t respect that calling – no one else will. This is a hard lesson of most of adulthood.

Conversely – your words aren’t sacred. Unless you’re a freaking genius, and I don’t mean just IQ greater than 140, your work can be improved with a good editor.  And it’s NOT about YOU. It’s about the words.

Failing to plan is planning to fail. No is a complete sentence. Tuesday and Weds are going to be long writing days for me and here’s how I’m planning for it.

Do the practical stuff. Make a pot of chili. Stock the fridge. Pick up the drycleaning. Make no other appointments. DO keep whatever workout routine you’ve established. Take your vitamins.

I’m really looking forward to this. There are some hard times ahead when I hit what I call “the wall”, but that’s about another 40K words from now.

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