So finally I have started to make some progress on writing a thousand words. I have achieved this today hence the post but not every day yet! My assignment is ready to proof read and send off having taken me only 3 weeks compared to 2 months for the others.
Building a writing habit does take time and perseverance. For the last 2 weeks the 5am get-ups have gone out the window and yet I have managed to squeeze the time in at other opportunities.
It still amazes me how housework can suddenly seem so much more attractive when I know I should be writing. Despite the fact that I love creating stories and find it truly cathartic I didn’t really understand how difficult it was to make yourself write each day.
I truly assumed that if you loved writing then writing a novel, book etc. would be very easy to do. You just sat down at your computer and hey presto in a few weeks the finished article emerged.
It is however, a labour of love. The elusive one thousand words can come quite easily when you spend a couple of days a week on your work. However, at this speed progress can be slow and with no reasonable end point in sight you can understand how some writers end up with a catalogue of unfinished projects.
I am hopeful that I will manage to finish my planned project but that is easy to say when you are just at the beginning.
As well as writing more frequently, I am reading more widely having started a subscription to the New Scientist, to purchase magazines such as The People’s Friend and to investigate different writing genre including Science Fiction. In addition I have committed to attending a least a couple of literary festivals this year.
Only time will tell how this great adventure into writing will turn out. Today I am feeling very positive!
