Yesterday, I completed the first draft of my fourth novel. Actually, in some ways it’s hard to believe that I’ve written that many novels. It wasn’t too long ago that I had given up entirely on writing and never thought I would ever have even finished one novel.
As I reflect on the writing of four novels in three years, I have come to realize that I have learned a few things. Let’s make it four things – one for each novel.
First, I had to learn not to listen to certain voices – mainly my own voices in my head. I had to overcome the doubts and the constant belittling that I would do to myself, saying things like “I’m not good enough”, “I don’t have a large enough vocabulary,” “I … this … I that …” Once the voices were silenced, I learned to put one word in…
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